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2.   "HINTS    TO    A    LAYMAN." 
3.   "CUARITY    AND    THE    CLERGY." 

"  Whose  condemnation  is  pronounced." 

Kino  Henry  V. 

"  Bring  me  their  opinions  of  success." 

CORIOLANUS. 

"Now  I  perceive  they  hare  conjoined,  all  Three." 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream. 

"I  will  do  what  I  can  for  them,  all  Three" 

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PREFACE. 


If  ever  a  volume  was  rebuked  by  the  in- 
dignant condemnation  of  those  best  qualified 
to  judge  in  the  premises^  "New  Themes  for 
the  Protestant  Clergy,"  has  certainly  suffered 
this  punishment. 

If  a  jury  could  be  empannelled  of  one  hun- 
dred individuals,  whose  personal  visitation  of 
the  poor,  and  general  knowledge  of  charita- 
ble operations,  peculiarly  fitted  them  to  sit 
in  judgment  upon  the  topics  discussed  in 
"  New  Themes,"  we  predict  that,  not  ten  of 
the  hundred,  in  concurring  in  a  sentence  of 
"  guilty,"  would  even  "  recommend"  the  book 
"  to  the  mercy  of  the  public."  To  use  the 
language  of  the  "  New  York  Observer," — 
when  commending  the  Review — "  We  can 


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hardly  persuade  ourselves  that  any  intelligent 
Christian  could  be  misled  by  the  errors  in 
judgment  and  fact,  into  which  the  author  of 
the  '  Themes'  has  fallen." 

Yet  we  do  not  deem  the  present  volume  a 
work  of  supererogation.  Unfortunately,  "  in- 
telligent Christians"  do  not  compose  the 
whole  of  the  reading  public.  If  intellectual 
strength,  and  moral  health,  and  philanthropic 
vigilance,  were  the  attributes  of  all,  we 
should  not  fear  the  sophistries  of  "  New 
Themes,"  any  more  than  we  do  the  subtle- 
ties of  the  "  School-men ;"  but,  unhappily, 
"  many  are  weak  and  sickly  among  us,  and 
many  sleep."  To  such,  from  causes  as  various 
as  their  infirmities,  or  their  errors,  "New 
Themes"  will  prove  a  dangerous  volume. 
There  are  also  many,  who  may  be  called  "acZ 
captandum'  readers,  who  judge  of  a  book,  as 
they  do  in  other  cases,  from  the  sign  which 
it  displays. 

If  the  volume  be  plentifully  interspersed 
with  Scripture  texts,  and  sufficiently  take  to 


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task  the  short-comings  of  the  world  at  large, 
and  Christians  in  particular,  these  excellent 
individuals  conclude,  as  a  matter  of  course, 
that  a  book  so  recommended  must  be  a  good 
one. 

There  is,  also,  we  understand,  a  small  class 
— very  small,  so  far  as  our  experience  ex- 
tends— of  persons,  unexceptionable  in  every 
respect,  who  profess  to  approve  of  "New 
Themes ;"  but  with  so  many  reservations, 
that  the  "  faint  praise"  of  the  poet,  imme- 
diately occurs  to  our  mind. 

There  may  be  some  individuals  who  en- 
dorse "  New  Themes"  throughout.  We  have 
met  with  none  such.  We  cannot  deny  that 
we  have  heard  of  such  authorities ;  but  we 
have  too  much  respect  for  the  author  of  the 
volume  so  endorsed,  to  give  the  names  of 
these  endorsers.  Merchants  consider  that 
even  an  endorsement  may,  in  some  cases,  not 
only  fail  to  strengthen,  but  may  entirely  de- 
stroy, the  credit  of  the  depreciated  document. 
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above  enumerated,  do  we  offer  to  the  public, 
the  formidable  array  of  weighty  "  Opinions" 
contained  in  this  volume.  If  "  New  Themes" 
should,  unfortunately,  descend  to  "  our  chil- 
dren, and  our  children's  children,"  we  wish 
to  show  them,  that  their  predecessors  were 
not  recreant  to  that  solemn  duty  which 
called  upon  them  to  stamp  with  their  earnest 
indignation,  and  heartfelt  abhorrence,  the 
manifold  errors  and  evil  tendencies  of  "  New 
Themes  for  the  Protestant  Clergy." 

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NEW  THEMES   FOR  THE   PROTESTANT   CLERGY.'" 


In  a  brief  article  under  the  above  title, 
the  author  of  "New  Themes"  has  seen  pro- 
per to  take  some  notice  of  our  "  Review." 
It  is  properly  entitled  a  "  Notice,"  for  rephj, 
it  neither  is,  nor  professes  to  be.     For  this 
he  is  not  to  blame :  for,  to  use  the  words  of 
one  of  the  author's  intimate  friends, — "the 
Review  is  unanswerable.''    We  take  no  great 
credit    to   ourselves    in   this    matter;    for, 
indeed,    it    required    but    a    very    limited 
amount  of  talent  or  information  to  confute 
^'  New  Themes."*     Before  we  proceed  to  a 

*  So  little  opportunity  had  we  in  the  few  pages  of  the 
"  Review  of  New  Themes''  to  fully  represent  the  errors, 
inconsistencies,  and  contradictions,  of  that  singular  pro- 


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brief*  Review  of  lliis  "  Notice,"  let  us  again 
remark,  what  we  have  been  so  careful  to 
state  repeatedly  in  the  "  Review,"  that  we 
give  the  author  of  "  New  Themes"  entire 
credit  for  good  motives  in  the  publication  of 
— as  another  of  his  friends  well  entitles  it, — 
"that  unfortunate  production."  We  op- 
posed the  opinion  which  has  been  so  often 
expressed,  that  the  book  was  the  work  of 
an  infidel;  and,  again  and  again,  declared 
our  belief  of  the  contrary.  That  any  critic, 
then,  should  charge  its  with  calling  the 
author  an  unbeliever,  argues  either  such 
carelessness,  or  such  untruthfulness,  as 
proves  his  opinion  to  be  of  little  weight. 
We  say,  on  pp.  16,  17:  "The  author  of 
*  New  Themes'  professes  to  believe  in  Chris- 
tianity as  ia  divine  revelation,  and  we  do  not 
doubt  his  sincerity."  Again,  on  p.  30  we 
say  :  "  Yet  we  do  not  believe  the  author  of 

duction,  that  we  have  drawn  up  a  second  Review,  in- 
cluding a  notice  of  the  preface  to  the  second  edition  of 
"New  Themes."     This  we  shall  reserve  for  the  present. 


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'New  Themes,'  to  be  an  infidel.     He  pro- 
fesses to  believe  in  the  Scriptures,  and  we 
credit  his  profession."     Again,   on  p.  138, 
we  entitle  his  labour,  "well-meaning  advo- 
cacy" in    the   cause  of  social  reform.     On 
p.  48,  we  declare  :  "  We  are  satisfied  that  the 
book  was  written  by  a  Christian,  and  one  of 
exemplary  Hfe  and  conversation."     And  all 
this,   we    now   re-afiirm.     We   believe   the 
author  to  be  a  good  man,  a  sincere  Chris- 
tian, a  zealous,  would-be  reformer.     Believe 
him   to    be   a  well-informed,   clear-headed, 
political  economist,   we  cannot,   so  long  as 
the  "wild  blunders  and  risible  absurdities" 
of  "New   Themes,"   stare   us  in   the  face. 
We   shall   now,   very    briefly,   review   the 
"  Some  Notice,  &c."    We  are  sorry  to  observe 
here,  the  same  careless  hand,  the  same  reck- 
lessness of  assertion,  the  same  rambling,  illo- 
gical, cast  of  mind,  which  were  so  painfully 
manifested  in  "New  Themes."     Indeed,  it 
would  appear  as  if  our  "  Review"  had  been 
scarcely  perused  at  all;  so  remarkable  are 


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the  misstatements  respecting  it.     Surely,  if 
worth  noticing,  it  was  Avorth  reading. 

The  "Notice"  says:  "You  will  have 
readily  perceived  that  not  all  the  censure  in 
which  it  abounds,  is  due  to  the  critic  him- 
self. It  is,  in  part,  a  compilation  of  what 
has  been  said  and  written  by  others.  The 
^Review'  presents  itself  in  two  aspects: — 
Firstly:  Its  criticisms  and  their  original 
authors.  Secondly :  The  critic  or  compiler. 
The  authors  of  these  severe  charges  demand 
the  first  attention." 

Is  it  possible  that  the  author  of  the 
"Notice"  can  have  read  the  "Review?" 
The  reader  will  see  by  reference,  that  the 
only  opinions  of  others  quoted,  are  that  of 
one  "eminent  individual"  (p.  30),  and  two 
booksellers,  pp.  30,  48.  What  then  can  our 
author  mean  by  the  above  "original  au- 
thors;" and  by  the  remark  that,  "In  regard 
to  them,  it  would  not  be  difficult  to  admi- 
nister severe  retaliation,  and  to  deal  in  sharp 
retort?"      Would    he    administer    "severe 


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retaliation"  to  the  poor  booksellers,  whose 
consciences  would  not  permit  them  to  aid 
the  circulation  of  "  New  Themes  ?"  Would 
he  use  "sharp  retort"  to  "this  eminent 
individual"  who  dared  to  disapprove  of 
what  he  thought  a  dangerous  production? 
He  cannot,  we  imagine,  even  know  who  he 
is.  So  far  from  the  "Review"  being,  in 
part,  a  compilation  of  what  was  said  and 
written  by  others,  no  one  knew  of  the 
writer's  intention  to  review  "  New  Themes," 
until  the  "Review"  was  partly  written. 
The  present  writer  avows  the  authorship, 
with  all  the  responsibilities,  merits,  or 
demerits,  therein  involved.  We  cannot  see 
that,  at  least  so  far,  our  author  has  gained 
anything  by  exchanging  the  arm-chair  of 
the  author,  for  the  tripod  of  the  critic. 
But  we  have  a  still  more  striking  instance 
of  his  critical  acumen.  He  says  that, 
the  "Reviewer"  considers  "these  English 
statutes  as  a  discovery  of  his  own."  This 
is  meant  to  be  witty;  and  there  is  "some- 


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thing  exquisitely  innocent"  in  his  clumsy 
attempts  at  ridicule;  but  unluckily,  these 
unwonted  gambols  prove  suicidal;  for  our 
author  is  so  inconsistent,  as  to  admit  that, 
we  credit  these  '^discoveries'  to  Wades 
British  History!  (He  might  have  added 
the  titles  of  other  works,  which  we  quoted, 
also.)  We  are  no  violent  advocates  for  the 
"  Greek  unities ;"  but  we  think  that,  at  least 
every  half  page,  should  be  consistent  with 
the  other  half.  We  quoted  the  Poor  Laws 
simply  in  disproof  of  his  flagrant  errors. 
Happy  would  it  have  been  for  our  author  s 
reputation  as  a  political  economist,  if  he  had 
stepped  "  book  in  hand"  into  this  discussion ; 
and  preferred  the  facts  of  "  Wade's  British 
History,"  to  the  assumptions  and  contradic- 
tions of  "New  Themes."  Many  of  these 
assertions  are,  indeed,  "profoundly  strange," 
not  only  to  ourselves,  but  to  the  world  at 
large.  If  our  author  will  exhibit  the 
"  breadth  of  his  knowledge,"  by  "  pointing 
out   the   very   statutes,   reciting    the   very 


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words,  and  quoting"  any  authorities,  which 
will  bear  him  out  in  the  half  of  his  "dis- 
coveries," we  will  agree  to  let  the  rest  pass 
without  challenge.  As  our  author  grows 
jocular,  and  amuses  us  with  an  anecdote  of 
a  layman,  let  us  have  our  turn  at  telling  a 
story  : 

"Once  on  a  time,"  in  1851,  a  book  was 
published  in  a  certain  city,  entitled,  "New 
Themes  for  the  Protestant  Clergy,"  &c.,  the 
object  of  which  was  to  urge  the  duties  of 
Christianity;  but  so  awkwardly  was  the 
thing  done,  that  many  declared  that  the 
avowed  Christian  was  really  an  infidel !  And 
his  friends  could  only  save  his  principles  by 
sheltering  him  under  the  obscurity  of  his 
style ;  declaring  that  he  had  not  made  him- 
self understood ! 

He  remarks  that,  "  It  is  no  doubt  unknown 
to  the  Ee viewer  that  the  statutes  quoted  by 
him  so  complacently  as  a  complete  reply  to 
the  statements  made  by  me  have  been  the 
subject  of  official  comment  in  England.     In 


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1834,    a   royal   commission,    appointed   'to 
make  diligent  and  full  inquiry  into  the  prac- 
tical operation  of  the  laws  for  the  relief  of 
the  poor  in  England  and  Wales,  and  into  the 
manner  in  which  those  laws  were  adminis- 
tered, &c.,  made  an  elaborate  report,' "  &c. 
He  says,  this  is  "  no  doubt  unknown"  to  us. 
What  will  the  reader  think  of  our  author's 
fairness,  when,  on  turning  to  our  '^  Review," 
pp.  120-128,  he  finds  that  we  have  devoted 
no  less  than  eight  pages  to  this  very  subject— 
the  royal  commission  of  1832-34  ?     Here  is 
a  critic,  indeed!     Our  author,  not  in  the 
most  courteous  manner  in  the  world,  calls  us 
"  blind."     But  who  is  "  blind"  now  ?     These 
are  singular  specimens  of  the  "  lofty  ways  of 
Christianity,"  in  which  he  desires  his  readers 
to  walk !     We  know  that  he  intended  no  mis- 
statement, but  '^  charity"  has  clearer  eyesight 
than  is  here  evinced.     And  with  reference  to 
"charity,"  we  have  another  misstatement, 
quite  as  remarkable  as  the  one  just  noticed. 
He  says  that,  "  It  was  an  allegation  in  '  New 


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Themes'  that  there  was  no  adequate  work  in 
the  English  language  on  Christian  Charity," 
&c.  The  Reviewer  furnishes  a  whole  cata- 
logue of  works  On  the  Love  of  God,  and  on 
God's  Love  for  Man.  The  Reviewer  is  per- 
haps so  imbued  with  a  knowledge  of  the 
ancient  languages  that  he  occasionally  for- 
gets his  English;  he  knows  that  the  word 
we  translate  charity  meant  also  in  the  origi- 
nal, love.  He  merely  forgets  that  our  word 
charity  has  an  English  meaning  so  well  esta- 
blished that  not  even  the  Reviewer  himself 
can  shake  it.  Neither  man's  love  of  God, 
nor  God's  love  for  man,  can  be  called  charity 
without  violence  to  the  English  language. 
How  one  apparently  so  well  educated  could 
be  guilty  of  such  a  mistake,  seems  inexpli- 
cable. Does  the  Reviewer  call  it  an  act  of 
CHARITY  IN  God  to  love  him  ?  And  if  he  be 
willing  thus  to  force  his  vocabulary,  is  he  so 
irreverent  as  to  go  further,  and  say  that  it  is 

AN  act  of  charity  IN  HIM  TO  LOVE  GOD  ? 


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Now  what  will  the  reader  say,  when  we 
inform  him,  that  this  choice  morsel  of  criti- 
cism is  entirely  gratuitous  ?  What  will  he 
think,  when  we  inform  him,  that  in  the 
whole  of  the  "  Review,"  there  is  not  the 
slightest  reference  to  this  allegation,  that 
"  there  was  no  adequate  work  in  the  Eng- 
lish language,  on  Christian  Charity  ?"  We 
remark,  on  page  129  of  the  "Eeview,"  that, 
"  our  author  inquires,  where,  in  all  its  range, 
shall  we  find  a  treatise  upon  the  '  Love  of 
God,'  which  does  justice  to  the  magnitude  of 
the  subject  ?"  By  reference  to  page  29  of 
"  New  Themes,"  it  will  be  seen,  that  we  have 
quoted  the  passage,  verbatim.  We  then  pro- 
ceed to  give  a  catalogue  of  works  upon  the 
"Love  of  God,"  which  catalogue  is,  of 
course,  strictly  pertinent  to  the  subject. 
After  this,  the  less  our  author  says  about  the 
"  low  paths  where  the  blind  are  prone  to  go," 
the  better.  It  is  "  charity"  to  suppose  him 
"  blind;"  and  we  willingly  relieve  him  from 


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a  less  desirable  dilemma.  But  is  a  writer  so 
careless  in  his  statements,  so  reckless  in  his 
assertions,  qualified  to  be  a  public  teacher, 
and  moral  instructor? 


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A  BRIEF  NOTICE 


OF 


"hints   to   a   layman 


» 


Mr.  Croly,  in  his  Life  of  George  IV.,  tells 
a  very  good  story  of  Erskine  and  Pitt,  which 
occurs  to  us  forcibly  at  the  present  moment. 
"  When  Mr.  Erskine  commenced  his  maiden 
speech,    Mr.    Pitt,   evidently    intending    to 
reply,  sat  with  pen  and  paper  in  his  hand, 
prepared  to  catch  the  arguments  of  his  for- 
midable adversary.      He  wrote  a  word  or 
two,   Erskine   proceeded;    but  with   every 
additional  sentence,  Pitt's  attention  to  the 
paper  relaxed,  his  look  became  more  care- 
less,  and  he  obviously  began  to  think  the 
orator  less  and  less  worthy  of  his  attention. 
At  length,  while  every  eye  in  the  House  was 
fixed  upon  him,  with  a  contemptuous  smile 
he  dashed  the  pen  through  the  paper,  and 
flung  them   on  the   floor.      Erskine  never 


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recovered  from  this  expression  of  disdain ; 
his  voice  faltered,  he  struggled  through  the 
remainder  of  his  speech,  and  sank  in  his  seat, 
dispirited,  and  shorn  of  his  fame." 

No  one  who  has  perused  the  "  Hints  to  a 
Layman,"  will  ask  a  reason  for  the  quota- 
tion of  this  anecdote.  We  had  been  advised 
of  the  intended  publication,  and  had  seen  it 
advertised  with  "a  great  flourish  of  trum- 
pets." We  thought,  here,  at  last,  will  be 
something  worthy  of  a  response;  now  we 
shall  know  something  of  that 

"  Stern  joy,  true  warriors  feel, 
Who  meet  with  foemen  worthy  of  their  steel." 

Of  course,  we  procured  the  work  with  all 
despatch ;  we  waited,  pen  and  paper  in  hand, 
to  find  something  in  the  shape  of  argument, 
of  reason,  at  least  of  common  sense,  to  jus- 
tify us  in  the  expenditure  of  "  stationery." 
Groping  our  way,  carefully,  through  the  ob- 
scurity of  blundering  sentences,  rheumatic 
phraseology,  puerile  truisms,  and  personal 

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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


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abuse,  which  disgrace  this  volume,  we  have 
still  asked  ourselves  the  question,  What  is 
the  object  of  this  wasteful  outlay  of  sixty- 
seven   pages   of  good   paper,  which  might 
have  been  so  much  more  usefully  employed? 
Arrived  at  the  end,  with  Pitt,  we  "  stick  our 
pen  through  the  paper,  and  throw  both  on 
the  floor."      We    would   fain   answer,    but 
what  is  there  to  be  answered  ?     We  know 
that  it  is  considered  rather  discourteous  by 
one  who  aspires  to  be  an  author,  to  be  con- 
sidered unworthy  of  any  kind  of  response ; 
but  what   can   we   do?      "Ex  m'M,"   &c. 
"  Nothing  can   come  from  nothing ;"    how 
then  shall  we  find  anything  in  the  "  Hints- 
worthy  of  a  grave  reply  ?     To  show  our 
willingness  to  do  all  that  can  be  expected  in 
this  matter,  we  hereby  promise  that,  if  the 
author  of  "  Hints,"  or  any  of  his  friends,  will 
point  out  to  us  a  single  page,  or  half  a  page, 
of  the  "  Hints,"  which  has  the  least  claim  to 
a  serious  notice,  we  will  endeavor  to  give  it 
such  consideration.     Our  critic  means  to  be 


very  severe  upon  us :  this  is  not  the  first  in- 
stance of  a  "  man's  committing  suicide,  when 
he  only  planned  murder."      We  make  no 
pretensions  to  extensive  literary  qualifica- 
tions, but  we  are  so  fully  convinced  of  their 
value,  that  when  we  select  a  literary  teacher, 
it  shall  not  be  the  author  of  such  a  luminous 
and  perspicuous  sentence  as  this,  to  which 
there  are  many  parallels  :  "  Eminent  foreign- 
ers have  remarked  this  intense  direction  of 
our  Hfe  to  what  is  visible  and  tangible,  to 
what  has  visible  and  palpable  and  measurea- 
ble  results ;  and  while  they  have  admitted 
that  the  general  mind  of  the  country  is  far 
more  alive  to  questions  that  range  above 
mere  material   interests,  than  is   the   case 
among  the  nations  of  Europe,  they  have  been 
justified  nevertheless    in   stating,   that,    as 
regards  works  of  profound  reflection,  there 
are  fewer  to  appreciate  them  than  among 
any  other  civilized  nation." 

Was  there  ever  a  sentence  more  "  Cicero- 
nian" in  construction,  more  "Johnsonian"  in 


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dignity  ?     But  as  our  limits  will  not  allow 
us  to  quote  over  half  a  hundred  pages,  we 
must  desist.     A  critic  says  of  some  of  Bos- 
well's  lucubrations :  "  To  say  that  these  pas- 
sages are  sophistical,  would  be  to  pay  them 
an  extravagant  compliment.     They  have  no 
pretence  to  argument,  or  even  to  meaning." 
We  shall  not  be  so  severe  on  the  author  of 
"  Hints."     But  we  must  treat  our  readers  to 
one  instance  of  this  author  s  beautiful  con- 
sistency and  logical  precision.     On  p.  33  we 
are  told  that,  the  "  amount  of  his  [the  Re- 
viewer's] inference  from  our  authors  words 
is,  that  he  speaks  of  the  doctrines  of  the 
Gospel  with   such  gross   irreverence   as   to 
warrant  one  who  did  not,  from  other  sources, 
know  the  contrary,  in  setting  him  down  as 
an  infidel;"  and  yet,  on  p.  58,  this  acute 
critic  contradicts  his  own  words  in  the  fol- 
lowing remarkable   style:    "He    [the   Re- 
viewer] does  not  prove  one  defect,  nor  even 
refer  to  our  author's  theory  of  doctrine,  upon 
which  alone  the  charge  of  infidelity  could 


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be  justly  based."  "Lool:  first  upon  this 
picture,  then  on  this."  In  one  place  we  are 
told  that,  our  inference  is,  that  the  author's 
views  of  doctrine  would  induce  some  to 
think  him  an  infidel.  Anon,  we  are  as 
gravely  assured  that  we  do  not  even  refer  to 
our  authors  theory  of  doctrine !  No  wonder 
he  tells  us  that,  "  only  a  mere  verbal  logi- 
cian could  object  as  he  does  on  p.  55 ;"  that, 
"  statements  and  counter  statements,  afiirma- 
tives  and  negatives,  on  the  same  questions, 
necessarily  prove  a  loose  and  inconsistent 
reasoner !" 

Will  it  be  believed  that  the  author  of 
"Hints"  takes  our  good-humored  raillery 
over  the  absurdities  of  "  New  Themes"  for 
severity  ?  This  may  be  an  innocent  error, 
but  to  charge  us,  after  all  our  protestations 
of  regard  for  the  Christian  character  of  the 
author  of  "  New  Themes,"  with  calling  him 
an  infidel,  can  hardly  be  innocent.  His  awk- 
ward attempts  at  ridiculing  our  literary  ca- 
pacity for  writing  the  "Review,"  will  not 

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I 
i 


surprise  any  one  who  reads  his  "Hints." 
We  well  remember  Mr.  Patrick  Lyon,  as  an 
eminent  blacksmith,  but  we  never  heard  of 
his  being  called  in  as  an  assayer,  to  decide 
what  was,  and  what  was  not,  gold.  A  Lich- 
field alderman  once  encountered  Dr.  Johnson, 
as  they  both  emerged  from  the  Cathedral,  after 
service.  "  A  fine  sermon  we  have  had  to-day, 
Dr.  Johnson,"  exclaimed  the  municipal  wor- 
thy ;  not  unwilling,  perhaps,  to  proclaim  his 
acquaintance  with  the  great  man.  The  gruff* 
Doctor,  who  delighted  in  rebuking  empty 
pretension,  either  in  aldermen  or  in  pam- 
pldeteers^  unfeelingly  responded :  "  That  may 
be,  sir ;  but  it  is  impossible  that  you  should 
know  it !" 

Now,  "  New  Themes"  may  be  a  very  strong 
book,  and  the  "  Review"  may  be  a  very  weak 
book, — but  it  is  impossible  that  he  of  the 
"Hints" — but  we  spare  the  application.  The 
reader  must  excuse  us  if  w^e  give  the  opinions 
of  others,  perhaps  as  well  qualified  to  judge 
— of  some  of  the  most  eminent  men  of  the 


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land — of  the   merits  of  our  unpretending 
"  Review." 

The  coarse  scolding  strain  in  which  this 
author  attacks  us,  we  hope  to  survive.  This 
"violent  dealing"  will  only  recoil  "on  his 
ow^n  pate;"  and  we  congratulate  him  that 
blows  in  that  quarter,  will  be  less  detrimental 
than  they  would  be  to  some  other  indivi- 
duals. We  presume  that  an  extensive  sale 
is  anticipated  for  the  "  Hints."  An  extensive 
circulation,  we  have  reason  to  know,  has  been 
already  secured.  But  we  are  all  aware  that 
a  quick  circidation  does  not  always  betoken 
health,  or  argue  long  life.  One  thing  we  can 
promise  the  writer :  that,  when  coarse  abuse, 
delivered  in  the  language  of  a  school-boy, 
and  graced  with  manners — not  exactly  of  the 
"  old  school,"  shall  be  preferred  to  argument 
and  good-breeding,  a  wide  popularity  will  be 
enjoyed  by  the  "  Hints."  Until  that  time,  the 
unfortunate  author  must  be  satisfied  to  wait 
for  that  general  depravation  of  taste,  which 
alone  can  secure  him  the  favor  of  the  public. 


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We  said  in  the  "  Review,"  that  the  author 
of  "  New  Themes"  had  sufficiently  punished 
himself  in  the  production  and  publication- 
above  all,  in  the  extended  circulation-of 
'^  New  Themes."     We  little  foresaw  what  a 
sore  infliction  we  were  preparing  for  him  by 
our  "  Review's"  calling  to  his  aid  (!)  such  a 
champion  as  this !     Imagine  his  overwhelm- 
ing  mortification  at  this  unfortunate  display 
of  the  zeal  of  his  champion,  the  author  of 
"  Hints  !"     We  are  not  naturally  cruel ;  and 
yet  how  the  gentlest  of  men  will,  sometimes, 
have  a  savage  thought  dart  into  his  head ! 
Shall  we  confess   it?     We   were   actually 
tempted  to  advise  all  of  our  readers  to  buy 
and  peruse  these  "  Hints  to  a  Layman  !"     If 
there  are  any  copies  which  the  author  wishes 
circulated,  we  promise  faithfully  to  distribute 
them.     But  no !  far  be  such  sanguinary  re- 
venge from  our  hearts !     In  mercy  to  the 
unlucky  author,  let  the  "  Hints  to  a  Lay- 
man" quietly  sink  into   oblivion :    let   this 
volume 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


83 


''  Hie  to  the  shade/' 
Where,   condemned   and   dishonored,    "New   Themes" 
shall  "  be  laid.'' 


Randolph,  of  Roanoke,  we  quote  from 
memory,  was  once  violently  assailed  by  some 
aspirant  for  public  favor,  who  undertook  to 
give  some  "  Hints"  to  this  eccentric  "  Lay- 
man." To  the  surprise  of  all  present,  who 
expected  that  the  young  orator  would  receive 
an  immediate  castigation,  Randolph  took  no 
notice  whatever  of  the  author  of  the  "  Hints 
to  a  Layman."  Shortly  after,  however, 
having  occasion  to  speak  of  a  bill  which  was 
originated  by  the  predecessor  of  his  assail- 
ant, he  remarked  :  "  This  bill  was  introduced 
by  the  gentleman  who  formerly  filled  that 
seat  (pointing  to  the  seat  of  the  assailant), 
which  is  now  vacant."  So  with  ourselves : 
we  commenced  this  discussion  with  the  au- 
thor of  "  New  Themes,"  who  once  filled  that 
chair  of  social  reform  which  is  now  vacant. 


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THIRTY  OPINIONS 


UPON 


"NEW    THEMES,"    ETC.,    AND    ITS    "REVIEWER 


» 


Perhaps  no  book  ever  took  the  commu- 
nity more  by  surprise,  than  did  the  "  New 
Themes  for  the  Protestant  Clergy."     Its  in- 
sulting attack  upon  Christian  ministers,  and 
Christian  men,  and  its  studied  depreciation 
of  the  operations  of  Christian  charity,  were 
as   remarkable   for   virulence,  as   were   its 
statements  for  want  of  truth,  and  its  "  zeal 
for  lack  of  knowledge."     We  do  not  mean 
that  the  author  intentionally  falsified ;  but 
surely  there  is  a  responsibility  for  ignorant 
censorship,  as  well  as  for  learned  perversion. 
He  who  would  instruct,  must  be  careful  to  be 
instructed.    Before  the  public  had  recovered 
from  their  surprise  at  the  audacity  of  the  work, 
they  were  astounded  at  the  discovery  of  its  au- 


thorship. As  the  splenetic  raving  of  an  avowed 
unbeliever,  it  would  have  been  amazing ;  as 
the  acknowledged  production  of  an  exem- 
plary Christian,  it  was  incomprehensible. 
Its  reception  was  exactly  that  which  might 
have  been  predicted.  It  was  lauded  in  quar- 
ters, where  praise  should  be  matter  of  the 
deepest  mortification;*  it  was  condemned 
by  others,  whose  approval  would  have  been 
sufficient  reward  for  greater  labor  than  was 
bestowed  in  its  production.  That  some  of 
this  latter  class  did  approve  of  this  work,  we 
are  not  at  all  disposed  to  deny.  That  the 
vast  majority  of  intelligent  opinions  are  con- 
demnatory of  "  New  Themes,"  we  most  con- 
scientiously believe. 

*  Extract  from  a  letter,  just  received ;  "  How  much 
it  grieves  me  to  see  the  triumph  which  New  Themes 

gives  to  free-thinkers  and  socialists.     Does  not  

begin  to  see  the  had  company  his  hooh  has  brought 
around  him  ?  If  a  Christian,  indeed,  which  I  cannot 
doubt,  I  should  suppose  he  would  be  troubled  by  the 
wurce  from  which  his  praise  comes,  and  the  grounds  on 
which  it  is  based,  equally." 


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Great  surprise  was  expressed,  that  a  book 
so  unfounded  in  its  assertion,  so  bitter  in  its 
spirit,  so  injurious  in  its  tendency,  should  be 
so  long  unanswered.    Believing,  in  the  words 
of  a  leading  periodical,  that  this  work  "  aimed 
a  hostile  blow  at  evangelical  religion ;"  that 
the  author  s  theory  was  "  wholly  indefensi- 
ble; his  views  of  Christianity  distorted;  and 
his  assault  upon  the  ministers  of  religion, 
and  existing  institutions,  without  excuse,"  we 
felt  that  the  public  had  a  right  to  demand, 
that  "  New  Themes"  should  not  escape  un- 
rebuked.     After  waiting  in  vain  for  some  one 
else  to  assume  the  duty,  we  felt  it  incum- 
bent  upon  us  to  attempt  it.      Feeling  the 
necessity  of  brevity,  we  were  obliged  to  leave 
many  of  the  errors  of  the  work  untouched. 
Our  great  care  was,  to  be  strictly  just  to  the 
author;  had  we  been  as  careful  of  our  duty 
to  the  public,  our  censure  would  have  been 
doubled,  and  our  pages  quadrupled.    But,  we 
were  far  kinder  to  the  author  than  he  was  to 
himself.     We  declared,— what  he  certainly 


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left  in  doubt,  in  the  minds  of  many  of  his 
readers, — that  his  object  was  a  good  one ; 
we  quoted  his  exact  words,  that  the  public 
might  see  both  sides  at  once ;  and  we  left 
many  of  his  objectionable  passages  entirely 
unnoticed.  Could  a  "  Review"  have  possibly 
been  more  fair,  or  rather,  more  lenient  ?  In 
addition  to  this,  we  undertake  to  say  that, 
not  one  of  the  author's  friends  has  contended 
more  frequently,  in  social  intercourse,  in 
favor  of  his  Christian  character,  than  has  the 
present  writer.  The  "Review"  was  pub- 
lished; and  truly  our  reward  has  been 
abundant ! 

Testimonials  of  approbation,  verbal,  and 
written,  from  friends,  and  strangers,  from 
Christians  and  others,  have  endorsed  the 
testimony  of  our  own  conscience,  that  we 
had  done,  however  feebly  and  imperfectly,  a 
good  work  in  reviewing  "  New  Themes  for 
the  Protestant  Clergy."  Intimate  friends  of 
the  author  of  "New  Themes,"  in  several 
cases  entire  strangers,  and  to  this  day  perso- 


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nally  unknown   to   us/'^  tendered  us   their 
thanks  for,  what  one  of  them  denominates,  a 
"  seasonable  interposition  in  behalf  of  true 
Bible   charity."     One   of  these    gentlemen, 
whom  we  had  never  before  seen,  called  upon 
us,  and  warmly  condemning  his  friend's  book 
remarked,  "  I  had  rather,  sir,  that  you  had 
sent  me  a  copy  of  your  '  Review,'  than  a 
$500   note.      I  said,  when  this   book   first 
made  its  appearance,  that  it  would  do  more 
harm  than  '  Paine's  Age  of  Reason.'     It  is 
not  black-faced  infidelity  that  we  fear :  this 
book  will  be  the  food  of  vicious  and  vulgar 
minds.     If  this  '  Review'  should  prove  to  be 
the  last  work  of  your  life,  sir,  I  believe  it  will 
be  the  best."    Another  intimate  friend  of  the 
author  of  "  New  Themes,"  equally  a  stranger 
to  us,  expressed  himself  almost  in  the  words 
of  this  paragraph.      How  completely  over- 
whelming has  been  the  rout  of  the  "New 

*  With  some  of  these  gentlemen  designated  as  ''  un- 
known to  us,''  we  have  become  acquainted  through  the 
medium  of  the  "  Review." 


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39 


Themes"  army,  may  be  seen,  from  the  des- 
perate plunges  of  their  leader,  in  his  attempts 
to  escape  from  the  quagmire  in  which  he  has 
involved  himself  [see  "Some  Notices,"  &c.], 
from  the  amusing  paroxysms  of  the  brilliant 
author  of  "  Hints  to  a  Layman,"  and  from 
the  vapid  effusions  of  some  newspaper  scrib- 
blers, who,  unfortunately  for  themselves, 
have  got  into  print,  by  imposing  upon  the 
good  nature  of  indulgent  editors. 

Whilst  making  these  remarks,  we,  of 
course,  admit  every  man's  right  to  condemn 
the  "  Review,"  as  heartily  as  we  have  the 
work  reviewed.  We  ask  no  quarter;  and 
shall  certainly  not  mistake,  as  some  of  the 
friends  of  "New  Themes"  and  its  author, 
seem  to  have  done,  the  freedom  of  criticism, 
for  want  of  i^espect  for  personal  character.  So 
far  from  having  any  "  bitterness  of  feeling" 
against  the  gentleman  whose  work  we  have 
felt  it  to  be  our  duty  to  condemn,  or  even 
against  our  violent  assailant,  the  author  of 
"  Hints  to  a  Layman,"  we  profess  exactly  the 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


contrary.  We  esteem  the  motives  of  both ; 
and  heartily  wish  them  success  in  all 
philanthropic  elBforts,  and  every  good  work 
which  may  enlist  their  zeal.  Had  the  au- 
thor of  "  New  Themes"  been  satisfied  with 
urging  men  to  greater  interest  in  the  cause 
of  humanity,  and  omitted  that  dangerous 
admixture,  which  has  elicited  so  much  me- 
rited condemnation,  we  should  have  revered 
the  book,  as  well  as  (which  we  still  do)  have 
respected  the  author. 

As  the  publishers  have  appended  to  our 
author  s  "  Politics  for  American  Christians," 
(a  much  better  work,  by  the  by,  than  its 
predecessor)  some  notices — approbatory  and 
mixed — of  the  work  reviewed,  we  have  a 
precedent  for  our  present  quotation  of  opi- 
nions. Of  these,  some  speak  of  both  the 
"  Review"  and  Reviewed ;  some  writers  have 
read  only  the  "  Review."  Let  it  be  remem- 
bered in  this  connexion,  that  in  the  "Re- 
view," we  have  given  notour  opinions  merely, 
nor  chiefly.     We  have  quoted  the  exact 


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words  of  "  New  Themes :" — words,  too,  that 
cannot  be  neutralized,  or  have  their  literal 
meaning  altered,  by  the  context.  Many 
persons  have  very  indefinite,  and,  therefore, 
erroneous,  notions  upon  this  subject  of  pass- 
ing opinions  upon  works.  We  hear  the  ob- 
jection made  :  "  You  only  quote  jpart  of  an 
author's  work ;  the  review,  therefore,  is  not 
fair."  But  is  it  possible  to  quote  all  of  an 
author's  book?  We  have  several  thou- 
sands of  volumes  of  literary  Reviews:  the 
"Monthly,"  1749-1842;  the  "Edinburgh;" 
the  "  Quarterly,"  &c.  Does  any  one  expect 
that  the  whole  work  of  an  author  shall  be 
incorporated  in  each,  or  either,  of  these  Re- 
views, before  an  intelligent  opinion  can  be 
formed  of  its  merits  ?  Quotations — in  some 
cases,  copious  quotations — should  be  given ; 
and  these  should  fairly  represent  that  which 
the  critic  makes  the  subject  of  praise  or  of 
censure. 

Quotations  may  be   fair  or   unfair.     To 
give  an  instance :  suppose  the  critic  should 

4* 


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object,  to  the  author  reviewed,  that  he  un- 
justly condemns  the  character  of  an  indivi- 
dual named,  and  gives,  as  a  quotation,  this 
phrase :  "  He  is  a  man  of  questionable  cha- 
racter ;"  this  would  be  an  unfair  quotation, 
provided  the  author  reviewed  go  on  to  state 
what  he  means  by  a  "questionable  charac- 
ter."    Tlien,  the  context  should  be  given ; 
that  the  reader  may  sit  in  judgment  upon 
the  whole  subject-matter.    But,  if  the  author 
assert,  "  Such  an  individual  is  a  liar,"  it  is 
perfectly  fair  in  the  reviewer  to  quote  this 
phrase,  without  the  context,  as  the  author's 
opinion  of  the  individual  accused,  because 
this  is  a  direct  accusation,  which  no  context 
can  neutralize  or  modify.     The  author's  evi- 
dence, indeed,  if  he  give  it,  might  not  be 
sufficient  to  satisfy  ycm  that  the  lie  is  proven, 
but  the  critic  only  professes  to  give  the  au- 
thorns  opinion. 

Now,  examine  the  quotations  in  our  "  Re- 
view," on  this  common-sense  basis.  They 
will  be  found  not  only  unusually  copious, 


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but  all  of  the  direct,  abstract  character  re- 
quired by  the  above  rule. 

Can  any  context  modify  the  assertion  that, 
"  it  is  rare  to  find  one  [minister  of  Christ] 
who  even  comprehends  the  scope  of  his 
teaching  who  spake  as  never  man  spake?" 
(See  "  New  Themes,"  p.  214,  215 ; "  Eeview," 
p.  34.)  Can  any  qualification  neutralize  the 
accusation  that,  "illustrations  of  the  pure 
teachings  of  Christ  they  find  nowhere?" 
(See  "  New  Themes,"  p.  28,  29  ;  "  Review," 
p.  25.)  Assuredly  not.  The  "  Review"  was 
especially  careful  to  state  that  the  dedgn  of 
the  work,  the  motive  of  the  author,  was  good. 
Approve  of  the  work  itself,  the  Reviewer 
could  not ;  and  it  appears  by  the  thirty  tes- 
timonials subjoined,  that  he  is  not  singular 
in  his  dissent.  These  opinions  are,  in  some 
cases,  those  of  eminent  and  justly  distin- 
guished individuals,  in  various  walks  of  life; 
in  all  cases  they  are  respectable ;  and  are 
highly  valued  by  an  humble  laborer  in  his 
Masters  vineyard;  who  thus  finds  that  he 


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elicits  approbation,  where  he  only  sought 
to  discharge  duty.  Some  passages  are,  of 
course,  omitted  ; — not  from  a  want  of  appre- 
ciation of  the  value  of  such  commendation, 
but  from  an  obvious  motive.  Yet  certain 
approbatory  passages  have  been  retained,  as 
a  species  of  self-defence  against  assaults 
(such  as  are  exhibited  in  "  Hints  to  a  Lay- 
man") charging  literary  defects,  &c.  This 
is  a  convenient  mode  of  attack ; — a  weapon 
which  can  be  wielded  by  any  weak  hand, 
when  the  armory  of  truth  and  reason  is  not 
readily  accessible. 

No.  I. 

FROM  A  ZEALOUS  PmLANTHROPIST,  A  FRIEND  OF  THE 
AUTHOR  OF  "NEW  THEMES,"  BUT  UNACQUAINTED 
WITH  THE  "REVIEWER." 


October  28,  1852. 

Dear  Sir: 

I  read  with  painful  interest "  New  Themes," 
when  first  published,  and  longed  for  an  anti- 


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dote  to  much  of  its  exceptionable  matter. 

put  into  my  hands  a  copy  of  your 

"  Review,"  which  I  have  perused  with  much 
satisfaction  and  profit. 

I  design  no  unmeaning  compliment  when 
I  say  that  your  "  Review"  is  both  able  and 
interesting.  The  statistical  information  you 
have  furnished,  touching  the  causes  of  pau- 
perism, both  in  this  country  and  Great  Bri- 
tain, as  well  as  the  condition  of  the  poor  and 
means  for  their  relief,  I  consider  the  most 
eflicacious  weapon  you  could  have  employed 
in  vindication  of  the  truth.  For,  after  all, 
what  the  public  needed,  was  rebutting  evi- 
dence. This  you  have  furnished,  from  the 
testimony  of  credible  witnesses.  And  for 
the  service  thus  rendered,  I  come  to  thank 
you. 

I  profess  to  be  a  friend  of  the  poor,  and 
desire  to  get  at  the  best  means  for  ameliora- 
ting their  condition.  Were  I  to  take  "  New 
Themes"  as  my  guide,  I  should  despair  of 
accomplishing  anything. 


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You  have  severely  rebuked  the  irreligious 
tendency  of  the  book.  If  you  have  cut 
deep,  it  was  because  the  nature  of  the  wound 
required  the  knife. 

Mr. I  know  well.     I  esteem  him  as 

a  warm  personal  friend.  So  much  the  greater 
is  my  regret,  that  he  should  so  far  have  for- 
gotten himself,  as,  literally,  to  wound  Christ 
in  the  house  of  his  friends. 

Again  thanking  you  for  your  seasonable 
interposition  in  behalf  of  true  Bible  Charity. 

I  am,  &c. 

FROM   THE   SAME. 

"  I  took  occasion  to  thank  you  for  service 
rendered  in  a  common  cause.  I  felt  that 
you  had  a  right  to  expect  thus  much  from 
your  Christian  brethren,  in  bearing  the  '  heat 
and  burden  of  the  day.'  Your  task  was  not 
a  pleasant  one,  in  confronting  a  fellow-disci- 
ple, and  that,  too,  on  ground  where  there 


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ought  to  have  been  no  difference  of  opinion.' 
Yet  I  hesitate  not  to  say,  you  have  dis- 
charged a  solemn  duty,  and  will  meet  with 
your  reward. 

"  When  first  I  got  hold  of '  New  Themes, 
and  began  to  read  it,  I  was  utterly  con- 
founded. I  read  on  till  midnight,  hoping  to 
find  something,  as  I  progressed,  in  extenua- 
tion of  the  extraordinary  onslaught  on 
Christianity. 

"  I  put  the  book  down,  at  1 J  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  sick  at  heart.  The  effect  on  my 
nervous  system  was  such  that  I  had  but 
little  rest  for  the  night. 

"  You  will  understand,  therefore,  why  my 
sympathies  are  with  you ;  and  why  I  come 
to  add  my  testimony  and  c(*nmendation  to 
the  excellence  of  your  book. 

"  I  ought  to  recall  a  word  I  used  in  my  for- 
mer note,  —  ^  severity,'— as  applied  to  the 
tone  of  your  '  Keview.'  I  should  have  used 
it  in  a  qualified  sense.     I  do  not  consider 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


that  you  were  unnecessarily  severe.  It 
would  have  been  difficult  for  you  to  have 
been  severer  than  '  New  Themes ;'  instance 
passages  quoted  in  Review,  on  pp.  25,  26, 
27.  My  impression  is,  that  the  readers  of 
your  volume,  will  not  regard  you  as  having 
violated  the  courtesies  of  the  Christian  gen- 
tleman, in  anything  you  have  said. 

"  Dr.  Johnson  has  remarked, '  Christianity 
is  the  highest  perfection  of  humanity,  and  as 
no  man  is  good,  but  as  he  wishes  the  good  of 
others,  no  man  can  be  good  in  the  highest 
degree  who  wishes  not  to  others  the  largest 
measure  of  the  greatest  good.' 

"  If  this  be  so,  '  New  Themes'  extinguishes 
the  only  source  from  whence  this  good  can 
spring — Chris  tflinity. 

"  With  yourself,  most  heartily  can  I  say, 
'  I  trust  the  time  of  repentance  and  retrac- 
tion will  yet  arrive. 


>  >> 


.f 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


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No.  11. 


FROM  A  FRIEND  OF  THE  AUTHOR  OF  "  NEW  THEMES," 
BUT  UNACQUAINTED  WITH  THE  "REVIEWER." 
WRITTEN  TO  A  FRIEND  WHO  HAD  SENT  HIM  A  COPY 
OF   THE    "review." 

Oct.  14th,  1852. 

I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for  the  able 
and  interesting  Review  sent  to  me  this 
morning.  I  had  already  procured  a  copy, 
but  I  am  glad  to  have  another  to  send  to  a 
friend. 

I  rejoice  that  a  "Layman"  No.  2,  has 
taken  hold  of  this  important  subject,  and 
answered  "A  Layman,"  as  "Layman"  No.  1 
will  be  apt  to  remember,  and  I  hope  profit  by. 
The  Review  is  well  conceived,  is  skilfully 
written,  and  in  my  judgment  is  unanswera- 
ble. I  have  been  looking  over  your  copy 
since  I  received  it,  and  my  former  impres- 
sions are  confirmed.  The  writer  has  left 
nothing  for  any  one  else  to  say. 


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No.  III. 

FROM  A  JUSTLY  DISTINGUISHED   WRITER  J     A    FRIEND 
OF   THE   AUTHOR   OF    "NEW   THEMES." 

Oct.  12,  1852. 

(This  writer,  after  stating  what  he  be- 
lieved to  be  the  origin  of  "  New  Themes/' 
proceeds  : — ) 

"  This  is  all  tlieonj  or  conjecture.  But  it 
is  the  only  way  in  which  I  can  solve  the 
mysteries  of  that  unfortunate  production. 
That  it  contains  much  sound  and  seasonable 
truth,  and  some  important  practical  sugges- 
tions, we  must  all  admit.  But  this  only  en- 
larges its  capacity  for  mischief.  I  think  you 
have  done  a  good  work  in  reviewing  it,  and  I 
thank  you  sincerely  for  your  volume,  which 
I  have  read  through  with  much  satisfaction, 

"  You  have  triumphantly  vindicated  the 
Christianity  of  our  day,  from  the  aspersions 
of  doing  nothing  for  the  poor.  I  think  you 
might  have  said  with  historical  accuracy, 


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that  the  '  Church'  in  its  different  branches, 

or  Christians  as  a  body  (if  Mr. prefer 

that),  have  never  done  so  much  for  the  poor, 
since  the  Apostolic  age,  as  they  are  doing 
now. 

"  *  *  The  charges  against  the  Church  of 
England,  partake  of  the  extravagance  of  the 
work  at  large.  The  question  of  Pauperism 
in  England,  is  an  almost  fathomless  abyss. 
We  are  chiefly  concerned  in  that  question  at 
home.     And  what  is  specially  observable  in 

Mr. 's  management  of  this  topic  is,  that 

his  premises  are  British,  and  his  conclusions 
American. 

"  He  loads  his  guns  with  John  Bull's  cart- 
ridges, and  fires  them  off  at  us.  It  takes 
some  equanimity  to  bear  this  meekly. 

"  But  I  am  writing  in  the  utmost  haste, 
with  an  engagement  pressing  on  hand,  and 
I  cannot  say  all  that  is  in  my  heart  to  say  to 
you,  about  the  book,  or  your  able  and  timely 
Review  of  it.     Thanking  you  again, 

"  I  remain.  Dear  Sir,  &c. 


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NEW   THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


No.  IV. 

Oct.  25,  1852. 

"I  have  read  your  Keview  of  New 
Themes,  with  attention.  In  addition  to  the 
fairness  of  the  analysis,  I  find  in  it  many 
strong  propositions  and  original  sentiments, 
of  pecuHar  force.  The  '  Review'  contains, 
moreover,  many  vakiable  and  important  sta- 
tistics, condensed  into  small  compass,  which 
must  have  been  the  result  of  great  labor, 
investigation,  and  research,  by  the  author. 
As  a  book  of  reference  of  sound  ecclesiasti- 
cal truthfulness,  it  will  contribute  to  the 
library  of  the  philosopher,  and  man  of  sci- 
ence, as  well  as  theologian." 

No.  V. 

Says  of  the  Review  that,  "  It  is  calculated 
to  do  good,  to  eradicate  evil ; — the  duty  of 
every  Christian." 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


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No.  VI. 

"  I  only  got  half  way  through  the  New 
Themes,  and  then  gave  it  up  as  unprofitable  : 
still  it  contains  much  that  is  too  true." 

No.  VII. 

Oct.  14,  1852. 
"  Your  Review  of  New  Themes  is  interest- 
ing and  satisfactory,  and  I  have  read  it  with 
profit  and  pleasure.  Christians  and  philan- 
thropists, in  spite  of  the  New  Themes,  have 
always  been  closely  wedded." 


No.  VIII. 

FROM  A  DISTINGUISHED    PUBLIC    OFFICER,   AND 
LITERARY  GENTLEMAN. 

"  I  have  read  your  little  pamphlet  through 
with  much  pleasure  ;  somewhat,  of  course,  at 
a  disadvantage,  not  having  seen  the  New 
Themes  which  it  reviews.  I  confess  I  have 
no  great  desire  to  see  it.  If  my  memory 
does  not  mislead  me,  I  have  heard  the  name 

6* 


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of  the  author — one  of  our  most  respectable 
and  intelligent  citizens.  The  pleasure  I 
have  in  reading  your  pamphlet,  aside  from 
the  intellectual  gratification,  is  in  the  con- 
sciousness, that  there  are  among  us,  young 
men,  who  not  only  think  seriously,  on  sub- 
jects distinct  from  money-making,  but  know 
how  to  express  their  thoughts  in  a  scholar- 
like manner.  Unhappily,  except  in  pam- 
phlets— such  is  the  condition  of  our  press — 
there  is  no  mode  of  utterance  for  such  as  you 
and  I,  and  others,  who  have  serious  thoughts 
aside  from  mere  business. 

"I  need  hardly  say,  how  completely  I 
agree  with  you ;  perhaps  go  a  little  farther, 
and  wish  that  the  agency  of  government,  in 
relieving  pauperism,  acted  only  through  the 
Christian  Church." 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


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No.  IX. 

"  From  what  I  hear  of  the  author  of  New 
Themes  I  presume  he  means  no  harm  by  his 
work ;  but  the  errors  and  evil  tendencies  of 
what  he  has  written,  are  manifold,  and  have 
been  strongly  set  forth  in  your  Review. 

"  In  many  points,  I  think  you  are  pecu- 
liarly happy  in  your  reply. 

"  The  New  Themes  set  me  to  thinking  on 
the  subject  treated,  and  I  was  glad  to  have 
read  it.  It  led  me  to  commence  a  strict 
scrutiny  of  my  own  motives  and  actions; 
and  though  I  was  compelled  to  enter  a  plea 
of  not  guilty  to  the  charges  preferred,  I  felt 
stirred  up  to  more  zeal  by  the  onslaught 
thus  made  upon  Christians  in  general,  and 
the  clergy  in  particular. 

"  Still,  in  most  cases,  I  think  the  book 
would  do  harm,  and  harm  only ;  and  I  am 
glad  you  have  so  ably  reviewed  it." 


56  NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETO. 

No.  X. 

Nov.  2,  1852. 

"I  have  never  seen  New  Themes,  &c., 
and  know  nothing  of  the  work,  but  from  the 
extracts  which  you  have  given.  They  are 
sufficient  to  show  its  poisonous  nature,  and 
I  rejoice  that  you  have  found  time  to  furnish 
such  an  antidote." 

No.  XI. 

FROM   A   LEGAL  GENTLEMAN  AND   AUTHOR. 

Oct.  25,  1852. 

"  I  find  in  the  Eeview  a  great  deal  of  in- 
teresting material,  well  wrought  up ;  and  I 
cannot  but  believe  its  effect  will  be  admira- 
ble." 

No.  XII. 

Nov.  16,  1852. 

"  It  was  not  until  last  week  I  had  time  to 
read  your  Review.     It  is  forcible  and  just. 


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When  I  spoke  to  you  about  New  Themes,  I 
had  not  seen  it,  nor  did  I  know  its  drift.     I 

only  knew  Mr. was  a  man  who  had 

read  much  on  the  subject. 

"Very  unfortunately,  many  Protestants 
are  blinded  by  Romish  pretence  and  assump- 
tion ;  and  although  they  well  know  the  ac- 
tual condition  of  the  Romish  Church,  they 
take  its  exaggerated  standard  to  measure 
all  others  by,  and  never  once  think  to  excuse 
any  short-comings  in  Protestants." 


No.  XIII. 

FROM   A  LEGAL   GENTLEMAN   AND  AUTHOR. 

Jan.  6,  1853. 

"Nothing  has  come  under  my  eye  this 
many  a  long  day,  which  gave  me  so  much 
pain  as  the  work  entitled  ^New  Themes, 
etc.,'  having  always  cherished  a  high  opi- 
nion of  the  reputed  author,  as  a  scholar,  a 
gentleman,  a  mevcliant,  and  a  Christian. 

"  I  could  not  have  imagined  that  one  hold- 


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ing  the  least  pretension  to  such  habits  of 
character,  could  have  found  it  in  his  heart, 
or  have  made  the  mistake,  to  put  forth  such 

a  work. 

<^I  was  more  particularly  distressed^  that 
one  for  whom  my  heart  is  continually  drawn 
out  in  prayer,  that  God's  grace  may  visit 
him,  but  whom,  alas !  the  world  influences 
too  much  (as  who  does  it  not  ?)  should  have 
referred  to  it,  as  stating  a  good  many  facts 
and  truths  about  the  clergy, 

"  It  does,  indeed,  state  a  great  many  facts 
and  truths,  to  prove  that  our  nature  is  imper- 
fect; and  that  the  best  of  us,  are  never 
wholly  free  from  corruption,  till  we  put  off 
this  mortal  coil.  But,  as  we  lawyers  say, 
'The  greater  the  truth,  the  greater  the 
LIBEL.'  That  is  to  say,  a  libel  which  has  its 
foundation  in  a/ac/,  does  the  greater  injury. 
Volney,  and  Voltaire,  and  Tom  Paine,  knew 
well  how  to  avail  themselves  of  this,  in 
their  assaults  upon  Christianity. 

"I   only  saw  the  'New  Themes'  within 


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59 


this  few  weeks,  and  had  not  then  seen  your 
excellent  Review'' 

This  writer  then  refers  to  the  "  tendency" 
of  New  Themes,  &c. 


No.  XIV. 

FROM   THE   PRESBYTERIAN   OF   OCT.    30,    1852. 

"  We  noticed  the  New  Themes  on  its  first 
appearance,  without  the  most  distant  intima- 
tion of  its  authorship,  and  we  then  expressed 
our  opinion  of  its  dangerous  character.     We 
regret  to  say  that  a  subsequent  examination 
only  added  to  the  strength  of  our  first  con- 
victions.    Whatever  may  have  been  the  de- 
si^-n  of  the  author,  his  book  has  aimed  a  hos- 
tile blow  at  evangelical  religion.    His  theory 
is  wholly  indefensible,  his  views  of  Chris- 
tianity distorted,  and  his  assault  upon  the 
ministers  of  religion,  and  existing  institu- 
tions, without  excuse.     This  book  has  now 
been  reviewed  by  an  intelligent  layman,  who 
certainly  exposes  many  of  its  objectionable 


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features,  and  makes  them  appear  still  more 
objectionable  by  grouping  them  together. 
The  tone  of  the  review  is  very  severe  and 
too  personal.  Handle  bad  arguments  with 
rough  honesty — this  may  be  done  effectively, 
without  treating  their  author  with  discour- 
tesy." 


Is  it  not  amusing  that  the  author  of  so 
severe  a  notice  as  the  above,  should  find  seve- 
rity in  our  "  Review  ?"  As  to  the  latter  s 
being  "  too  personal/'  all  that  is  "  personal," 
is  highly  in  favor  of  the  author  of  "  New 
Themes."  Is  it  too  "  personal"  to  speak  of  a 
man  as  a  "  Christian  of  exemplary  life  and 
conversation"  (Review,  p.  48)  ?  Of  his 
"well-meaning  advocacy"  (Review,  p.  138)  ? 
Of  his  seeming  to  have  "  so  much  at  heart 
the  well-being  of  the  indigent,  and  the  moral 
and  social  improvement  of  the  human  race" 
(Review,  p.  139)  ?  Surely  this  is  strange 
"personality  !"  We  shall  show  that  others 
take  a  very  different  view  of  the  spirit  in 


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which  our  "  Review"  is  written.  The  editor 
of  the  "  Presbyterian*  Magazine"  says,  that 
"  the  Reviewer  is  full  of  charity  towards  the 
erring  author  of  New  Themes."  Others — 
but  w^e  shall  proceed  to  quote  the  letters, 
&c.,  in  which  these  views  are  expressed. 

*  These  condemnatory  notices  of  New  Themes  from 
Presbyterian  periodicals,  are  a  good  commentary 
upon  the  sagacious  remark  of  the  author  of  that  most 
unlucky  effusion,  entitled  "  Hints  to  a  Layman ;"  who, 
in  one  of  his  melancholy  attempts  at  wit,  states  that,  he 
was  unable  to  "account  for  the  attempted  severity  of 
the  Reviewer,  until  I  was  informed  that  he  was  a  Lay- 
man of  the  Episcopal  Church ;  and  the  problem  in  my 
own  mind  is  solved,  et  Jiinc  ille  lachrymoe.^^  But  when 
Presbyterian  authorities  thus  condemn  "  New  Themes," 
whose  are  the  "  tears''  then  ?  He  of  the  "  Hints"  may 
be  congratulated  that  he  has  got  his  mind  into  a  condi- 
tion to  solve  "  problems." 

It  is  a  great  thing  to  be  able  to  "solve  problems." 


6 


62 


NEW   THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


No.  XV. 

FROM  AN  AUTHOR,  THE  FRIEND  OF  THE  AUTHOR  OF 
"NEW  THEMES,"  BUT  UNACQUAINTED  WITH  THE 
REVIEWER.  EXTRACT  FROM  A  LETTER  WRITTEN  TO 
AN  ACQUAINTANCE. 

Nov.  2,  1852. 

"  I  am  much  mdebted  as  well  as  much  oh- 
liged  for  your  sending  me  the  ^Review/ 
&c.  It  came  at  the  very  time  that  I  was  in- 
tending to  get  it.  I  have  read  it  through, 
and  am  greatly  pleased  with  the  manner  in 
which  our  anonymous  lay  friend  has  inter- 
posed his  shield,  to  catch  some  of  the  '  fiery 
darts'  that  have  been  aimed  at  us,  by  the 
author  of '  New  Themes,'  &c. 

"The  reply  is  written  with  vigor,  good 
taste,  and  (better  than  either)  with  good 
temjper, 

"The  Reviewer  has  successfully  shown 
that,  whatever  may  have  been  the  intentions 

of  Mr. (which  none  who  know  him  are 

disposed  to  impugn),  his  language  has  been 


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63 


often  very  unguarded,  and  his  statements 
widely  at  variance  with  the  opinions  of 
others,  whose  judgment  he  himself  greatly 
respects. 

"  The  Review  is  highly  creditable  to  both 
the  Christian  and  literary  character  of  the 
author." 


No.  XVI. 

Oct.  28,  1852. 

"  I  have  read  your  Review  of  New  Themes, 
and  in  reading  it,  was  constantly  reminded 
of  the  words,  ^  The  accuser  of  our  brethren,' 
'  which  accused  them  before  our  God  day  and 
night,'  Rev.  12,  10.  The  author,  certainly, 
has  placed  himself  before  the  public,  as  doing 
to  the  church,  what  the  '  great  dragon  the 
devil,'  is  said  in  that  verse  to  have  done. 
The  Review  is  admirably  written;  the 
truth,  the  whole  truth,  and  nothing  but 
the  truth,  being  told,  in  a  Christian-like 
spirit  and  manner." 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


65 


No.  XVII. 

December  20,  1852. 

"  I  was  particularly  gratified  with  the  para- 
graph on  Girard.  I  have  not  seen  anything 
from  a  layman,  so  bold,  conclusive,  and  so 
suited  to  rivet  impressive  conviction,  in  re- 
ference to  Girard's  infidelity.  The  clergy 
owe  you  a  debt  of  gratitude  for  vindicating 
them  against  an  attack  the  most  formidable 
that  could  be  made,  because  made  on  a  large 
scale,  by  actions,  that  speak  louder  than 
words,  and  in  this  case,  I  fear,  will  tell  with 
much  more  disastrous  energy. 

"  I  would  that  your  paragraph  could  be 
extensively  read." 

No.  XVIII. 

November  20,  1852. 
"The  'New  Themes'  I  have  read  carefully, 
notes  and  all,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
notes  that  I  had  not  courage  nor  patience 


to  wade  through.  How  the  Professors  of 
Princeton  can  keep  quiet,  and  allow  such 
errors  to  walk  abroad  unmolested,  I  cannot 
understand.  The  Review  has  received  such 
unqualified  commendation,  that  it  is  not 
worth  while  for  me  to  express  an  opinion. 

I  was  glad  to  hear  Dr.  's  real  opinion. 

*  *  Then,  again,  the  false  assertions  he 
makes,  the  sweeping  denunciations  through- 
out the  whole  book,  are  perfectly  pre][K)ste- 


rous. 


» 


[We  may  pause  a  moment  in  this  quo- 
tation to  state  that  this  writer  was  not 
willing  to  admit  "New  Themes"  into  the 
library,  for  fear  of  the  injurious  influence  it 
might  have  upon  immature  minds.  It  would 
seem  that  this  caution  was  not  needless,  for 
the  writer  proceeds  to  speak  of  the  impres- 
sion a  few  passages  made  upon  two  juvenile 
minds :] 

" and heard and  I  talk- 
ing over  the  book.  I  read  some  passages 
aloud ;  they  became  deeply  interested ;  and 

6* 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


67 


they  both  said  afterwards,  they  did  not  see 

how  it  was  possible  for  Mr.  to  be  a 

Christian,   and  yet  to  show  so  little  of  a 
Christian  spirit  in  his  book.     The  view  he 

takes  of  Girard,  shocked particularly." 

This  is  not  the  only  person  we  have  heard 
express  the  opinion  that,  "  New  Themes"  was 
not  a  book  to  be  left  where  it  might  be  read 
without  a  commentator  to  refute  its  errors. 


No.  XIX. 

November  1,  1852. 

"We  think  the  Review  does  Mr.  

great  credit.     Mr. [a  gentleman  whose 

name  is  familiar  to  the  nation,  for  having 
long  served  them  in  a  most  useful  capacity] 
says,  'it  shows  a  great  deal  of  research.' 
But,  what  is  better,  I  think  it  was  called  for, 
and  will  do  good.  Some  say  there  are  many 
good  things  in  the  book  (I  have  not  read  it), 
but  this  would  seem  to  make  it  the  more 


dangerous. 


went  to  hear 


last 


;l 


I 


Sabbath,  and  says  that,  among  other  errors, 
he   warned  his   people   against  the   'New 
Themes'  of  a  modern  author,  who  would 
aim  at  the  subversion  of  the  existing  orders 
of  society,  and  make  Christianity  to  consist 
in  taking  care  of  the  poor,  or  something  to 
that  effect ;  these  are  not  the  exact  words. 
I  have  no  doubt  but  he  was  stirred  up  by 
the  '  Review,'  to  sound  the  note.    No  amount 
of  good  can  atone  for  the  positive  evil  con- 
tained in  the  book.     I  am  anxious  to  know 

how  Mr. receives  it.     I  fancy  he  will 

be  surprised  himself  when  he  gets  a  realizing 
sense  of  the  '  inconsistencies'  of  his  book,  as 
they  appear  in  that  grouping." 

The  gentleman  whose  opinion  is  given 
above  (he  is  not  counted,  it  will  be  seen,  in 
the  "  Thirty ;"  we  give  a  specific  number,  as 
a  specimen  of  many  ''thirties"),  whose  Con- 
gressional experience  well  qualifies  him  to 
judge  of  works  based  upon  questions  of  sta- 
tistics, and  political  economy,  remarked  in 
the  presence  of  the  writer,  on  laying  down 


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NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


"New  Themes/'  ^-I  have  just  read  some 
twenty  pages,  and  I  never  saw  such  a  mass 
of  inconsistency  and  ignorance  in  my  life. 
Many  good  things  might  be  picked  out  of  it, 
but  it  is  levelled  against  the  whole  system  of 
truth." 


No.  XX. 

FROM   A  LETTER   TO  A  FRIEND. 

"I  have  been  very  tardy  in  performing 
the  promise  I  made  of  writing  you  my  views 

of  Mr. 's  Review.     I  have  read  it  with 

great  gusto.  It  is  most  capital.  It  reminds 
me  of  some  of  the  best  reviews  I  have  read : 
they  have  been  always  gleaned  from  the  best 
English  periodicals. 

"The  author  of  New  Themes  must  be 
slightly  crazed,  or  is  a  monomaniac  at  least; 
more  extraordinary  views  were  surely  never 
broached  by  a  Christian  man." 


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69 


No.  XXI. 


October  14,  1852. 
"  I  last  night  sat  down  to  read  the  Re- 
view, and  did  not  rise  before  it  was  finished. 
We  have  heard  the  '  New  Themes'  spoken 
of  as  an  able  book;  but  we  agree,  if  you 
give  a  fair  view  of  it  (and  it  appears  so  to 
be),  that  it  is  full  of  the  most  barefaced  in- 
consistency and  falsehood.*     You  have  com- 
pletely demolished  the  author.     You  leave 
him  not  a  plank  whereon  to  save  himself. 
He  can  hardly  think  of  a  defence  ;  and  yet, 
such  assertions  come  from  one  who  would 
attempt  it  possibly. 

"  I  am  surprised  to  hear  you  assert  that 
the  author  is  a  believer  in  Christianity.  I 
should  judge  from  the  extracts  that  your 
friend,  or  the  booksellers  friend,  who  ad- 
vised him  not  to  sell  it,  had  good  reason  to 
call  the  author  either  an  infidel  or  a  socialist. 

*  The  author's  exact  words  are  quoted.  He  speaks 
for  himself. 


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NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


"  Is  it  known  who  the  author  is  ?  And  if 
known,  does  he  not  hide  his  face  in  shame  ? 
It 's  terrible  to  risk  one's  Christian  and  lite- 
rary  reputation  in  the  manner  he  has. 

"  Your  last  chapter  is  very  able  and  con- 
vincing—some parts  of  it  really  eloquent." 

The  reference  in  the  above  letter,  to  the 
gentleman  who  advised  a  bookseller  not  to 
sell  "  New  Themes/'  is  to  pages  30  and  31 
of  the  "  Keview/'  which  we  shall  quote : 

"Let  us  mention  an  incident  connected 
with  the  first  publication  of  New  Themes. 
A  bookseller,  who  had  the  book  sent  him  for 
sale,  glanced  over  its  pages,  and  being  a  con- 
scientious man,  saw  enough  to  make  him 
hesitate  whether  he  ought  to  dispose  of  it. 
Not  willing  to  rest  entirely  upon  his  own 
judgment,  he  sent  the  book  to  one  of  the 
most  eminent  men  in  the  United  States, 
whom  he  considered  a  suitable  judge,  with 
a  request  that  he  would  give  his  opinion  of 
the  work.  After  inspection,  a  written  opi- 
nion was  returned,  to  this  effect :  '  The  book 


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71 


must  be  the  production  of  an  infidel  or  a 
socialist.  I  advise  you  not  to  sell  it.'  This 
fact  we  had  from  his  own  lips." 

This  gentleman  does  not  seem  to  have 
changed  his  opinion  of  "  New  Themes ;"  in 
illustration  of  which  we  shall  give  extracts 
from  several  letters  of  his  to  the  Reviewer, 
written  before  and  after  the  publication  of 
the  "  Review," 


No.  XXII. 

"  I  have  read  the  '  New  Themes'  carefully, 
and  am  glad  that  you  have  reviewed  it  [the 
Review  was  not  yet  published]  ;  for  it  is  a 
very  bad  book,  and  yet  a  very  ingenious  one. 
Persons,  otherwise  well-disposed,  but  igno- 
rant on  religious  subjects,  will  be  very  apt  to 
think  highly  of  the  work ;  it  is  so  plausible ; 
and  being  full  of  the  religious  notions  of 
'  Young  America,'  it  will  abet  the  cause  of 
infidelity  under  all  its  phases.     His  spurious 


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NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


premises  about  Christian  qove'  should  be 
exposed,  for  it  is  the  ca7it  of  his  class." 

Again,  under  date  of  October  14,  he  writes : 
"  Many  thanks  for  your  '  Eeply,'  which  is 
just  such  an  one  as  the  book  deserves.  You 
tell  the  truth  very  forcibly  on  the  top  of  p. 
36.  Does  the  author  retain  his  connexion 
with  the  P.  Church  ?  I  think  you  said  he 
was  a  member." 


FROM   THE   SAME. 


October  28. 

"  I  enclose  the  well-merited  approbation 
received  by  your  Review.  I  think  the  style 
in  which  it  is  written  is  exactly  such  an  one 
as  the  author  of  '  New  Themes'  deserved. 
Have  you  heard  what  he  says  about  it  ?  He 
has  done  to  Christianity  what  Judas  did  to 
Christ,— ^  Hail,  Master,  and  kissed  him,'  and 
then  betrayed  him." 


NEW   THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


73 


FROM  THE   SAME. 


November  4. 

"  I  received  *  *  *,  as  well  as  a  very  excel- 
lent account  of  the  success  of  your  Review. 
I  am  quitQ  out  of  the  way  of  hearing  any 
news  from  your  part  of  the  world,  and  shall 
always  be  glad  to  be  informed  how  the  au- 
thor takes  it,  and  whether  he  does  not  intend 
to  return  your  fire. 

^'  Perhaps  he  is,  even  now,  shotting  his 
guns — or,  rather,  loading  them  with  blank 
cartridge,  for  of  shot  he  has  none,  to  judge 
from  his  last  artillery." 

We  have  noted,  here  and  there,  that  cer- 
tain individuals,  whose  "opinions"  have  been 
quoted,  are  men  who  are  "eminent,"  are 
"  authors,"  &c. ;  not  but  that  we  value  the 
approbation  of  all,  but  there  is,  of  course,  a 
just  weight  attached  to  the  verdicts  of  those 
whose  particular  studies,  or  general  intelli- 
gence, enables  them  to  combine  the  learning 
of  the  judge,  with  the  impartiality  of  the 

7 


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NEW  THEMES    CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


juror ;  who  are  equally  competent  to  sit  upon 
the  "law,"  and  upon  the  "facts." 

We  shall  now  record  the  decisions  of  a 
number  more  of  this  class,  whose  names 
constitute  "  a  tower  of  strength,  which  they 
of  the  adverse  faction,  lack." 

No.  XXIII. 


FROM  A  DISTINGUISHED  INDIVIDUAL  AND   AUTHOR. 

November  30,  1852. 

"  I  thank  you  for  the  copy  of  the  Review 
of  New  Themes,  and  thank  you  also  for 
writing  it.  The  production  was  undoubtedly 
designed  as  an  attack  on  Christianity.* 
There  is  something  very  amusing  in  the  im- 

*  This  opinion  we  have  often  heard  stated,  and  as 
often  denied.  Indeed,  as  we  remarked  upon  a  previous 
page,  we  doubt  if  any  one  of  the  friends  of  the  author 
of  "  New  Themes,"  has  argued  so  often  and  so  earnestly 
in  vindication  of  his  Christian  character.  In  conversa- 
tion (we  have  not  quoted  conversations  here — only  writ- 
ten opinions)  how  often  have  we  heard  it  declared — "  He 
must  be  an  infidel !" — which  presumption  we  have  as 
strenuously  denied,  and  still  deny. 


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75 


pudence  of  such  writers ;  who,  while  they  are 
angry  if  any  one  undertakes  to  teach  them 
how  to  do  their  proper  business,  never  are 
prevented  by  their  modesty,  from  supposing 
that  they  are  quite  competent  to  instruct  the 
clergy  in  all  that  belongs  to  their  appropriate 

calling. 

"  Possibly  the  writer  of  '  New  Themes,' 
may  call  himself  a  clergyman;  if  so,  his 
lack  of  modesty  and  humility,  is  equally 
apparent ;  as  he  makes  a  sweeping  condem- 
nation of  the  whole  body  of  the  Protestant 
clergy.     He,  alone,  understands  his  duty." 


No.  XXIV. 

FROM    AN   EMINENT   INDIVIDUAL  AND     SCHOLAR,   AND 
WRITER  UPON   POLITICAL  ECONOMY. 

"I  thank  you  for  your  vigorous   protest 

against  the  errors  of  Mr. 's  book ;  and, 

especially,  against  its  excessively  vitupera- 
tive* style.     I  trust  he  meant  well.     His 

*  Extract  from  another  writer:— "I  thank  you  for 
your  masterly  answer  to  that  most  vituperative  book  of 


76 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


book  strikes  upon  some  real  evils  and 
defects,  but  he  has  missed  sadly  the  tone 
and  qualifications  that  ought  to  have  been 
brought  to  such  a  work. 

.     "  Yours,  faithfully,  &c." 

No.  XXV. 

FROM   A   DISTINGUISHED    AUTHOR. 

November  30,  1852. 

"It  [the  Eeview]  has  pleased  me  greatly. 
I  think  it  a  fair  and  candid  exposure  of  a 
bad  book,  written  in  a  very  bad  spirit. 
Your  account  of  the  benevolent  labors  of 
Protestant  churches  in  Philadelphia,  has 
interested  me  greatly. 

"  With  much  respect,  &c." 

We  shall  now  give  the  opinion  of  an 
English  gentleman,  of  most  extensive  infor- 
mation, the  author  of  a  very  valuable  work, 
the  popularity  of  which  is  best  proved  by 
the  number  of  editions  which   have  been 

Mr.  *s.     I  read  them  both,  some  time  ago,  with 

great  interest,  and  shall  again  peruse  your  Review  with 
renewed  pleasure." 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


77 


called  for.  His  letter  refers,  especially,  to 
that  portion  of  '^New  Themes,"  which 
brings  such  absurd  and  "railing  accusation" 
against  the  Church  of  England,  respecting 
her  alleged  neglect  of  the  poor.  But  this 
writer  ably  defends  her  against  our  Quixotic 
knight,  who  so  often  descries  "  Mambrino's 
helmet,"  in  the  ostensible  basin  of  the 
travelling  barber. 

Now  before  the  reader  peruses  this  letter, 
let  him  ask  himself — ^who  is  most  likely  to 
know  the  truth,  as  to  English  aflfairs  of  this 
character: — the  author  of  "New  Themes," 
or  the  author  of  the  letter  subjoined  ? 

No.  XXVI. 


"  To  S.  Austin  Allibone,  Esq.  : 

"  Dear  Sir — I  have  derived  much  gratifi- 
cation from  a  perusal  of  your  able  '  Review 
of  New  Themes,'  a  work  which  appears  to 
your  correspondent  to  teem  with  dangerous 
errors,  if  not  also  with  infidel  tendencies. 


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NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


"With  regard  to  one  of  the  errors — an 
alleged  want  of  practical  charity  in  relieving 
the  physical,  and  mental,  as  well  as  the 
spiritual,  requirements  of  the  poor  and 
afflicted,  on  the  part  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal clergy  in  England — allow  me,  as  a 
native  of  that  country,  to  correct  a  mistake, 
which,  it  is  courteous  and  merciful  to  sup- 
pose, could  only  have  originated  in  mis- 
information. 

"I  can  truly  say  that,  there  is  hardly  a 
village  in  England,  in  which  some  school, 
poor  fund,  or  institution  to  encourage  indus- 
try and  virtue,  and  to  relieve  want,  is  not 
to  be  found  connected  with  the  church.  In 
the  larger  towns  and  cities,  and  in  each  of 
their  parishes,  the  clergy  are,  I  can  almost 
say  to  a  man,  active  in  originating,  pro- 
moting, and  visiting  Inflint  Schools,  National 
Schools,  Hospitals,  Dorcas  Societies,  Cha- 
ritable Unions,  Visiting  Societies  to  inquire 
into  the  wants  of  the  destitute,  with  a  view 
to  proper  relief,  and  many  other  institutions, 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


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that  are  an  honor  to  human  nature,  and  to 
the  age  in  which  we   live.     At  the  same 
time,  the  Poor  Law  System,  as  by  legis- 
lation  established,   may,   certainly,   be   re- 
garded  as   a  gigantic   National  Charity, 
both  in  England,  and  the  United  States; 
doubly  valuable,  from  the  compulsory  power 
which  impels  even  the  miserly  man  of  pro- 
perty to  contribute,  and  the  official  discre- 
tion, which  discriminates  between  the  idle 
and  industrious,  between  the  truly  afflicted 
and  the  base  and  hypocritical.     Such  laws, 
and   such   establishments,   are    among  the 
glories  of  Protestant  influence,  and  modern 
civilization.     Dear  Sir,  truly  yours." 

So  much  for  the  indictment  of  the  author 
of  New  Themes  [see  "New  Themes,"  p.  147, 
and  ^^ Review,"  p.  124]  running  on  thiswise: 

"  The  Church  of  England  turned  the  poor 
out  of  doors,  and  took  possession  of  their 
houses  and  goods;  and  whilst  revelling  in 
the  enjoyment  of  these  ill-gotten  gains, 
myriads  of  paupers,  lying  at  her  gates,  are 


80 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


suffering  the  extremities  of  sickness,  naked- 
ness, and  want."     Ex  pede  Herculem  ! 


No.  XXVII. 


FROM  AN  INTIMATE  FRIEND  OF   THE  AUTHOR  OF   "  NEW 


THEMES.'' 

October  29,  1852. 

"I  take  the  first  leisure  at  my  command, 
for  a  week  or  two,  to  thank  you  for  your 
good  service  to  the  cause  of  our  common 
Lord  and  Saviour,  by  your  able  and  excel- 
lent Review  of  the  New  Themes,  &c.,  and 
for  the  copy  you  did  me  the  honor  to  hand 
me.  I  have  read  it  attentively,  and  with 
interest,  and  deem  it  just  and  called  for; 
spicy  and  piquant,  and  ad  hominem,  though 
it  be,  it  is  none  too  much  so.  The  author 
had  no  right  to  expect  less,  but  more;  let 
him  feel  it,  and  repent.  He  is  a  good  man, 
I  trust,  but  certainly  not  a  profound  theo- 
logian. He  went  out  of  his  way  when  he 
undertook  to  rebuke  the  Protestant  clergy. 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


81 


as  a  faithless  and  hypocritical  class  of  men, 
of  whom  he  says :  '  It  is  a  rare  thing  to  find 
one,  that  follows  the  example,  or  compre- 
hends the  scope  of  their  Master's  teachings.' 
What  would  he  think,  or  how  would  he 
feel,  if  you  or  I  should  say,  and  publish  to 
the  world,  that  it  is  a  rare  thing  to  find  an 
honest  lawyer,  or  a  fair-dealing  merchant  ? 

"Let  us  have  fair  play;  let  there  be  dis- 
crimination between  the  chaff  and  the 
wheat. 

"  The  author  of  the  New  Themes  attempts 
to  justify  Stephen  Girard,  in  his  invidious 
exclusion  of  the  clergy  from  his  college  for 
orphans,  by  reminding  us  that  the  manage- 
ment of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible 
Society,  the  London  and  the  American  Sun- 
day-school Unions,  is  committed  exclusively 
to  laymen.  Now  this  is  sheer  sophistry. 
Why  were  the  clergy  exempted  from  sharing 
in  the  management  of  these  noble  insti- 
tutions ?  Was  it  because  they  were  regard- 
ed as  a  dangerous  class  of  men  ?     No,  but 


82 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


83 


because  they  moved  and  advocated  the  ma- 
nagement of  them  by  laymen,  exclusively,  in 
order  to  call  forth  the  greater  amount  of  lay 
talent  and  zeal,  in  these  simple  modes  of 
well-doing.  The  cases  are  not  at  all  alike ; 
indeed,  the  author  seems  to  have  had  some 
compunctious  visitings  for  his  note  on  page 
275  of  the  Themes,  for  in  his  second  edition, 
we  jfind  quite  another  thing,  though  still  far- 
fetched, and  ill-contrived. 

"But  the  most  offensive  feature  of  these 
'  Themes,'  is  the  indirect  tilts  they  make  at 
some  of  the  fundamental  doctrines  of  the 
gospel.  The  author's  familiarity  with  cer- 
tain writers  referred  to  in  his  work,  has 
alienated  him,  I  fear,  in  some  measure, 
from  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus." 

We  next  subjoin  a  letter  from  a  gentle- 
man who  takes  us  to  task  for  under  esti- 
mates, in  our  brief  sketch  of  charitable 
operations  in  Philadelphia. 


No.  XXVIII. 

October  27,  1852. 

"  I  have  just  read  with  much  pleasure 
and  profit  your  able  Review  of  the  book 
New  Themes,  and  feel  that  I  am  perform- 
ing no  more  than  a  Christian  duty,  in  thus 
returning  you  my  thanks  for  the  prompt- 
ness of  your  reply  to  this,  to  say  the  least, 
injudicious  work,  as  well  as  to  express  my 
delight  at  the  forcible  and  convincing  man- 
ner in  which  you  have  met  the  author  and 
his  subject;  though,  had  your  notice  of  him 
been  less  conclusive,  or  tame,  I  should  have 
regretted  its  appearance;  believing  it  better, 
as  a  general  thing,  to  let  publications  of  this 
unfortunate  character,  fall  'still  born,'  or 
have  their  day,  and  be  forgotten,  than  to 
advertise  them  by  a  lame  reply.  But  your 
refutation  of  the  author's  charges  is  so  com- 
plete and  overwhelming,  that  I  now  look 
upon   it    as   a  favorable    circumstance   for 


84 


NEW   THEMES    CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


Christianity,  and  for  Christians,  that  the 
^New  Themes'  has  been  written;  inasmuch 
as  in  calling  forth  your  '  Review/  the  truth 
has  been  reached,  as  well  as  the  right  vindi- 
cated, and  much  statistical  light  on  the  sub- 
ject evolved,  of  a  character  both  interesting 
and  useful.  Permit  me  to  say  that,  with- 
out professing  it,  you  have  done  more  in 
your  work,  for  the  cause  of  charity,  than 
the  author  of  '  New  Themes'  has  done,  with 
that  ostetisible  object  in  view,  by  pointing  out 
in  a  forcible  manner,  the  causes  of  Pauper- 
ism; thus  Haying  the  axe  at  the  root  of  the 
tree!'  I,  therefore,  earnestly  pray  that 
your  Review  may  have  a  wide  circulation, 
and  only  regret  that  it  is  not  somewhat 
fuller,  so  as  to  take  a  place  among  the 
standard  literature  of  the  day. 

"  When  my  attention  was  first  drawn  to 
the  work  under  review,  its  pugnacious  title, 
coupled  with  its  anonymous  character,  led 
me  to  think  it  a  catchpenny  ^Monthly;' 
but  a  seductive  preface,  with  copious  notes 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


85 


by '  the  Editor,'  induced  me  to  read  it  with 
some   attention.     What  was    my  astonish- 
ment, subsequently,  to  learn  that  this  editor 
and  the  ambitious  author  were  one  and  the 
same  person !     Now  this  kind  of  subterfuge 
to  induce  people  to  read  an  author  s  book, 
is,  I  think,  a  species  of  dishonesty,  entirely 
at  variance   with   the    spirit   that    should 
actuate   one    who   would    be    a    Christian 
Reformer!  and  is  altogether  unworthy  the 
author  of '  New  Themes !'     He  should  have 
credit,  however,  for  the  maintenance  of  can- 
dor as  to  the  main  point  of  his  work;  for  he 
leaves  no  one  in  doubt  in  regard  to  the  pur- 
pose he  has  in  view;  which,  undoubtedly, 
is,   to    administer   an   indiscriminate   casti- 
gation   upon  all  orders  of  Christians!  and 
like  a  skilful  executioner,  with  his  mind  so 
intent  upon  one  object,  as  to  be  blind  to 
every  other!  facts  and  figures,  as  well  as 
truth  and  reason,  are  as  nothing  to  him  in 
comparison  to  the  '  pound  of  flesh !' 
"Among  other  reckless  assertions,  he  charges 

8 


86 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


in  general  terras,  that  there  is  no  charity, 
practical,  or  theoretical,  worth  naming, 
among  Christians,  at  the  present  day ;  and 
comparatively  nothing  done  for  the  poor,  by 
them !  This  you  have  answered  faithfully 
and  effectually;  but  permit  me  to  say,  sir, 
that  in  your  care  to  deal  fairly  with  the 
reviewed,  you  have  come  short  of  the  actual 
truth,  in  your  estimate  of  the  number  of 
charitable  societies  in  our  city.  Instead  of 
two  hundred,  as  you  state,  there  are  over 
three  hundred  societies,  and  associations  of 
Christians,  among  us,  whose  sole  object  is 
the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  the 
poor,  and  the  reformation  of  vice.  There 
are  over  two  hundred  churches  in  this  city 
and  county,  all  of  which,  I  believe,  have 
their  charitable  fund,  in  some  shape  or 
another;  and  most  of  them,  their  Dorcas 
societies;  besides  which,  there  is  in  the 
Episcopal  churches,  at  least,  the  communion 
offerings;  which  are  appropriated  to  the 
poor;  to  all  of  which,  you  may  add,  about  a 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


87 


hundred,  organized  and   unorganized,  inde- 
pendent   associations,   collecting   from  two 
hundred,  to  ten  thousand,  dollars  and  up- 
wards, per  annum.     Add  to  which,  the  vast 
sums  that  are  expended  in  the  publication 
and  distribution  of  Sunday-school,  and  other 
religious  books    and  tracts,  which  are  pro- 
perly works  of  charity,   and  all  of  which 
emanate  from  associated  religious  bodies  of 
men  and  women,  and   you  have  a  whole 
of  Christian  works  of  charity,  the  know- 
ledge of  which  should  put  to  the  blush  the 
author  of  '  New  Themes,'  who  tells  us  that 
more  than  a  moiety  of  the  moneys  obtained 
for  Christian  purposes,  and  works  of  charity, 
comes  from  the  pockets  of  non-professors ! 

"  So  far  as  I  am  acquainted  with  the  bene- 
volent societies  of  this  city,  they  are  directed 
and  supported,  either  wholly,  or  in  great  part, 
by  Christians,  it  being  difficult  to  get  non- 
professors  to  undertake  any  associated  work 
of  charity.  This  fact  is  notorious  ;  and  the 
opposite  is  too  absurd  to  merit  any  serious 


88 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


notice,  as  it  can  be  disproved  by  any  man 
who  is  himself  engaged  enough  in  works  of 
benevolence  to  have  mingled  with  that  band 
(much  too  small,  I  admit)  of  self-sacrificing 
Christians,  whose  money  is  poured  out  like 
water,  and  whose  whole  lives  are  spent  in 
Agoing  about  doing  good!' 

"  I  fear  I  have  wearied  you  with  so  long  a 
note,  but  could  not  resist  the  inclination  in 
passing  to  endorse  your  testimony;  and  I 
will  only  add,  in  conclusion,  that  you  have 
yourself  performed  a  work  of  Christian  cha- 
rity in  the  production  of  this  able  review  of 
that  unchristian  work  and  bad  book."* 

*  With  reference  to  the  assertion  of  "New  Themes" 
that  charity  is  neglected  in  this  age,  hear  the  "opinion" 
of  a  very  celebrated  public  lecturer : 

"  Our  age  might  also  be  termed  the  age  of  extreme 
benevolence ;  no  charity  had  the  world  ever  seen  equal 
to  that  of  our  times — so  kind,  so  far-reaching,  so  encir- 
cling. 

"  The  human  benevolence  of  our  day  was  like  a  Di- 
vine Providence  made  visible  and  made  active )  as  minute 
in  its  agencies  as  it  was  absorbing  in  its  character ;  for 


NEW   THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


89 


No.  XXIX. 

Editorial  from  the  "New  York  Observer,"  of  Oct.  28,  1852. 

"A  few  months  ago  we  criticised  with 
great  severity  a  Philadelphia  book  entitled 
^New   Themes  for  the  Protestant  Clergy.' 

while  it  encompassed,  in  its  anxiety,  the  whole  circle  of 
mortal  sorrow  and  want,  it  at  the  same  time  labored  to 
relieve  every  specific  ill." 

The  author  of  "New  Themes"  charges  clergymen 
with  neglecting  charitable  labors,  and  occupying  them- 
selves too  much  with  theology.  Daniel  Webster's 
"opinion"  upon  this  very  point  has  been  lately  pub- 
lished :  let  us  contrast  it  with  the  above : 

"  He  expressed  the  idea  that,  though  the  ministers 
of  our  day  had  been  quite  useful  in  giving  so  much  of 
their  attention  as  they  have  to  the  various  charities, 
and  other  labors  than  those  more  strictly  belonging  to 
their  profession,  they  have  lost  as  students  and  pastors, 
and  as  to  their  power  in  the  pulpit." 

To  be  sure,  we  have  another  "  Daniel  come  to  judg- 
ment," in  the  author  of  "New  Themes j"  but  he  must 
excuse  us  if  we  say,  with  him  who  preferred  the  ancient 

vintage,  "  the  old  is  better  1" 

8* 


90 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


We  pronounced  it  a  bad  book  by  a  good  man ; 
a  well-meant  failure;  a  great  blunder;  a 
slander  on  the  Church,  by  some  one  who 
thought  he  knew  what  he  was  about,  but 
was  greatly  mistaken. 

"Since  our  review  of  it,  we  have  been 
pleased  to  observe  that  others  have  taken  the 
same  view  of  the  work  [the  present  Eeviewer 
had  never  seen  the  notice  here  referred  to], 
and  now  a  volume  has  been  issued  by  the 
same  publishers,  Lippincott,  Grambo  &  Co., 
in  which  the  New  Themes  are  handled  with 
justice  and  strength,*  the  errors  freely  ex- 
posed, and  the  great  mistakes  of  the  author 
brought  under  deserved  censure.  In  our  no- 
tice we  said  that  there  was  more  good  and 

*  We  again  take  occasion  to  repeat,  that  it  has  been 
urged  upon  us  as  a  duty,  that  some  of  these  commenda- 
tory notices  of  the  literary  character  of  our  "  Review  " 
should  be  retained,  as  a  species  of  defence  against  the 
disparagements  of  the  author  of  "  New  Themes/'  and 
his  armor-bearer  (more  ready  than  was  SauFs  to  hold  for 
him  the  murderous  sword),  the  author  of  that  immortal 
production,  "Hints  to  a  Layman." 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


91 


more  evil  in  the  book  than  we  had  ever  seen 
in  the  same  compass,  and  we  are  more  than 
ever  convinced  of  it  by  the  rapid  perusal  of 
the  Review  now  before  us.  We  trust  that 
this  '  Review  by  a  Layman'  will  be  read  by 
all  who  have  perused  the  original  volume, 
although  we  can  hardly  persuade  ourselves 
that  any  intelligent  Christian  could  be  misled 
by  the  errors,  in  judgment  and  fact,  into 
which  the  writer  of  the  '  Themes'  has  fallen." 
[Perhaps  this  review  is  rather  "  severe  !"] 


The  "  Presbyterian  Magazine"  (see  a  late 
author  on  the  classical  phrase,  Hinc  illce 
laclirymce)  thus  noticed  the  "  New  Themes," 
shortly  after  its  first  appearance.  We  have 
not  space  to  quote  it  all,  extracts  from  "  New 
Themes"  included,  but  we  advise  our  readers 
to  peruse  it  in  extenso.  The  quotations  which 
we  give,  will  show  how  forcibly  the  editor  and 
ourselves  were  struck  with  the  same  objec- 
tionable features  in  the  work  reviewed.  If 
we  had  read  it  at  all— of  which  we  are  un- 


92 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


certain — until  within  the  last  few  weeks,  we 
certainly  had  forgotten  it  when  we  wrote  aiir 
Keview.  We  are  pleased  to  see  that  we  agree 
so  exactly  with  the  learned  editor,  whose  ap- 
probation may  "  earnestly  be  coveted"  by  all 
who  value  the  suffrages  of  the  wise  and  good. 
But  to  his  review : 


From  the  "Presbyterian  Magazine,"  February,  1852. 

NEW  THEMES  FOR  THE  PROTESTANT  CLERGY,  ETC.,  WITH 

NOTES  BY  THE  EDITOR. 

"  It  is  wise  to  endeavor  to  receive  instruc- 
"  tion  from  whatever  source  and  under  what- 
ever circumstances  it  may  come.  "We  hope 
to  be  benefitted  by  the  perusal  of  this  extra- 
ordinary book.  Was  it  written  by  a  Unita- 
rian? So  think  some.  Others  affirm  that 
its  author  is  a  Jesuit  in  disguise.  Others, 
with  a  knowing  look,  declare  it  to  be  a  pro- 
duction of  an  Old  School  Presbyterian  Elder ! 
(Spare  us  so  unkind  a  thought,  ye  over-cre- 
dulous critics !)     No ;  we  reckon  its  author 


« 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


93 


to  be  one  of  that  small  class,  whose  secta- 
rianism is  of  a  diflferent  kind  from  that  of  all 
other  denominations.  One  of  the  ill  effects 
of  this  book  will  be  the  confirmation  afforded 
to  Socinianism  and  Atheists  on  the  one  hand, 
and  to  Jesuits  on  the  other,  of  their  common 
hatred  of  evangelical  religion.  The  author, 
therefore,  has  incurred  great  responsibility. 
He  will  be  mightily  applauded  by  the  cham- 
pions of  liberality,  such  as  the  Christian  Re- 
gister, of  Boston,  the  Freeman's  Journal,  the 
Tribune,  the  Mormons  of  Salt  Lake,  and  the 
whole  army  of  hostile  opposers. 

"  That  the  work  contains  many  thoughts 
worthy  of  serious  reflection  by  Protestants, 
we  fully  believe.  The  imperfections,  theore- 
tical and  practical,  belonging  to  the  prevalent 
system  of  religion,  should  always  command 
grave  consideration.  Whilst  we  admit  that 
there  is  often  too  little  charity  in  the  state- 
ment of  theological  opinions,  does  it  there- 
fore follow  that  our  creeds  are  '  without  cha- 
rity ?' 


94 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


"  Because  the  Church  does  not  take  care 
of  all  the  poor  by  ecclesiastical  authority, 
but  leaves  them  in  part  to  the  protection  of 
the  state  by  taxation,  is  our  theology  there- 
fore '  without  humanity  ?' 

"  And  if  Protestantism  has  failed  in  seve- 
ral, or  even  many^  points,  is  it  right  to  stigma- 
tize it  as  '  without  Christianity  ?'  A  spirit 
of  unsound  exaggeration  pervades  the  work 
from  the  title-page  to  '  the  end/ 

"  The  author  enumerates,  among  his  com- 
plaints against  Protestantism,  its  method  of 
raising  funds  to  '  preach  the  gospel  to  every 
creature.'     The  following  are  his  words  : 

" '  Whence  comes  this  money  ?'  [Then 
follows  a  quotation  of  fifteen  lines;  after 
which  the  reviewer  proceeds:]  There  is, 
indeed,  reason  to  deplore  the  necessity  of  so 
much  machinery ;  but  the  experience  of  the 
Church  shows  that  means  must  he  \ised.  Our 
system  may  no  doubt  be  improved ;  but  those 
who  find  the  most  fault  with  it,  are  not  com- 
monly those  most  distinguished  for  their  ^hu- 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


95 


manity.'  We  trust  that  public  opinion  will 
always  compel  a  Christian  to  ^contribute 
liberally'  according  to  his  means,  under  the 
penalty  of  a  loss  of  influence  and  respecta- 
bility; and  we  have  yet  to  learn  that  the 
great  mass  of  benevolent  contributions  are 
not  the  '  voluntary  offerings'  of  our  people. 
There  are  too  many  evidences  in  this  volume 
that  the  author  has  not  those  kindly  feelings 
towards  the  ministry  which  are  commonly 
entertained  by  the  pious  of  all  denomina- 
tions. He  expresses  more  sympathy  for 
Stephen  Girard,  a  notorious  infidel,  than  for 
the  ministers  of  God's  word,  who  are  ex- 
cluded, as  sectarians,  from  his  trust. 

"  And  he  insinuates  that  the  clergy  brand 
Mr.  Girard  as  an  infidel  because  they  are 
excluded."  [Then  follows  that  most  dis- 
graceful paragraph  upon  which  we  comment 
in  the  "  Review,"  p.  39,  &c. ;  "  New  Themes," 
p.  275.     The  Magazine  proceeds  :] 

"  The  reader  will  notice  that  the  author, 
in  the  above  quotation,  exalts  Mr.  Girard's 


96 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


scheme  as  a  sort  of  evidence  of  piety ;  whilst 
he  insinuates  as  much  against  the  clergy  as 
he  can  well  condense  with  decency. 

"This  Presbyterian  of  the  Odd  School 
finds  fault  with  the  Shorter  Catechism  as  a 
manual  of  duty,  although  a  large  part  of  it 
is  taken  up  with  a  searching  exposition  of 
'  what  duties  God  requires  of  man.'  He  also 
has  objections  to  teaching  the  Catechism  to 
our  youth ;  and  asks,  '  Is  this  bringing  chil- 
dren to  Christ  ?  Is  this  honoring  his  insti- 
tutions V 

"And,  as  if  not  enough  to  attack  the 
Church  of  the  present  day,  and  its  whole 
system  of  teaching  and  practical  operation, 
he  assails  the  Keformers  and  fathers  in  such 
language  as  this :  '  The  Reformers,  and  the 
successors  to  their  vocation  and  spirit,  always 
inculcated  prayer.  They  could  not  rise  to 
the  conception  of  charity,  and  mercy,  and 
peace,  but  they  could  pray  devoutly,  and 
loud,  and  long.  They  were  wiiHng  to  talk 
with  God,  but  they  could  not  preach  the 
Gospel  to  the  poor.     They  could  stand  up 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


97 


and  make  long  prayers— they  could  pray  in 
secret,  and  with  earnestness— but  the  kind- 
ness of  brotherly  love  was  almost  a  stranger 
to  their  bosom.'     We  deeply  regret  that  any 
Protestant  church  should  have  the  discredit 
of  such  a  volume.     If  it  be  a  fair  specimen 
of  Protestantism,  the  latter  is  a  failure  in- 
deed.     'New    Themes   for   the   Protestant 
Clergy?'     No;  themes  as  old  as  infidelity. 
What  infidel  has  not  rung  changes   upon 
them,  from  Celsus  and  Julian  the  Apostate 
down  to  Bolingbroke,  Voltaire,  and  the  mo- 
dern Nothingarians  ?    'New  Themes?'    Yes; 
themes  new  for  a  Christian,  new  for  a  Pro- 
testant, new  for  a  Presbyterian." 

Such  is  the  learned  editor's  opinion  of 
"  New  Themes ;"  let  us  see  what  he  thinks 
of  the  "  Review." 


From  the  ''  Presbyterian  Magazine"  for  the  present  month, 

January,  1853. 

"  A  Layman  has  taken  in  hand  an  author 
whose  '  New  Themes,'  assaulted  Christianity 

9 


98 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


in  its  Creeds,  Theology,  and  Protestantism. 
*  *  We  understand  that  the  latter  gentle- 
man complains  of  the  severity*  with  which 

*  The  idea  of  the  general  executioner  of  New  Themes' 
celebrity,  complaining  of  "  severity,''  is  sufficiently  amu- 
sing. A  man  who  stigmatizes  millions  of  Christians, 
and  hundreds  of  thousands  of  Christian  teachers  (for  his 
indictment  extends  over  many  ages,  and  all  Christen- 
dom), as  unworthy  "  of  the  vocation  wherewith  they  are 
called,"  should  be  prepared  to  "  endure  hardness,"  if  he 
happen  to  encounter  it  in  his  militant  onslaught.  But 
the  truth  is,  he  has  been  treated  with  the  most  remarka- 
ble lenity.  We  have  never  known  an  instance  so  well 
calculated  to  prove  the  value  of  character.  Because 
known  to  be  a  Christian,  he  has  been  permitted  to  escape 
almost  uncensured  (by  many)  whilst  "  dealing  condem- 
nation" round  the  world,  to  all  whom  he  judged  de- 
linquent. He  speaks  (in  "  Some  Notice  of  a  Review," 
&c.)  of  the  "  complacency"  of  the  present  writer.  Is 
there  any  "  complacency"  in  his  assertion  (New  Themes, 
p.  215),  that  "It  is  rare  to  find  one  [minister  of  Christ] 
who  even  comprehends  the  scope  of  his  teaching,  who 
spake  as  never  man  spake  ?"  He  here  impliedly  asserts, 
that  Jie  himself  ^^  comprehends ;"  otherwise,  he  could  not 
judge  whether  they  did,  or  did  not  ?  Does  ^Ai*s  look  any- 
thing like  "complacency?"  The  Church  of  Rome 
claims  no  more  than  this,  for  the  Pope  himself ! 


\ 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


99 


he  has  been  handled.     Far  be  it  from  us  to 
add  to   wounds  unnecessarily   or  unmerci- 
fully ;  but  we  do  not  think  that  he  has  re- 
ceived more  than  his  real  deserts.     Perso- 
nally, we  have  the  kindest  feelings  towards 
him,  feelings  of  the  most  sincere  compassion, 
on  account  of  his  unfortunate  position.    But 
a  man  who   denounces  creeds,  clergy  and 
Protestants  in   the  way  that  he  has  done, 
must  expect  punishment,  for  his  own  good, 
and  that  of  others,  and  punishment  admi- 
nistered according   to  the   measure   of  evil 
which  his  book  is  ambitious  to  accomplish. 
His   work   has   passed   unnoticed  in   some 
quarters   where   minor    offenders  have  not 
escaped.     An  author,  unmasking  his  batte- 
ries upon  the  general  army  of  Protestantism, 
must  calculate  his  risks  beforehand.     For 
our  part,  we  shall  not  hesitate  to  expose 
books  of  a  tendency  so  infidel  and  untruth- 
ful;   and,   particularly,   when   the   errorist 
happens,  in  the  course  of  Providence,  to  be 
an  Old   School   Presbyterian.     We  recom- 


100 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


mend  all  who  wish  to  understand  the  sub- 
ject, to  read  the  admirable  Review  by  an 
Episcopal  Layman.  This  Review  of  New 
Themes  is  intelligent  and  discriminating  in 
its  criticisms,  full  of  charity  towards  the 
erring  writer,  and  ably  defends  the  truths 
which  '  New  Themes'  so  mistakingly  tram- 
ples upon.  The  most  charitable  excuse  that 
we  have  heard  for  the  author  of  ^  New 
Themes,'  was  that  of  a  lady,  who  innocently 
suggested,  that  '  he  did  not  know  what  he 
was  about.' " 

What  do  the  author  of  "  New  Themes," 
and  its  advocates,  think  of  this  verdict  from 
one  of  the  best  authorities  in  his  own  Church  ? 
We  now  adduce  the  opinion  of  a  distin- 
guished legal  and  literary  gentleman,  who 
stands  in  the  first  order  of  genius ;  and  the 
very  drippings  of  whose  pen,  casually  thrown 
out,  are  graphically  eloquent;  as  will  be  seen 
from  the  letter  annexed. 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


101 


No.  XXX. 


FROM   THE   HON. 


Nov.  29,  1852. 
"  I  have  not  seen,  probably  never  will  see, 
the  '  Tlmmes'  In  most  cases,  it  is  but 
rough  justice  to  condemn  a  book  upon  the 
ex  "parte  evidence  furnished  by  a  Eeview: 
but  your  generous  extracts  afibrd  us  ample 
grounds  for  a  free  and  equitable  judgment : 
you  bring  the  culprit  into  court,  and  confront 
him;  he  pleads  his  own  cause,  and  I  feel 
that  I  am  justified  in  forming  and  expressing 
a  condemnatory  opinion.*  I  concur,  most 
emphatically,  with  every  view  which  you 
have  taken  of  the  book ;  and  I  realize  the 
importance,  the  necessity,  of  such  a  response, 

*  In  the  "Review,"  the  book  "New  Themes"  is  in- 
dicted for  certain  alleged  errors ;  the  evidence  submitted 
is  the  very  language  of  the  accused.  Can  anything  be 
fairer?  The  competent  authority  quoted  above,  decides 
that  the  evidence  is  valid,  and  that  the  crime  is  proved. 

Indeed,  is  not  this  self-evident  ? 

9* 


102 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


and  feel  grateful  for  it.  For  the  theme  is 
popular,  and  the  thesis  dangerous.  It  is  a 
sad  truth,  that  he  who  objects  to  the  Chris- 
tian system,  will  never  lack  favorable  audi- 
tors. The  objections  of  the  author  of  the 
Themes^  are  by  no  means  novel.  They  min- 
gle with  the  slaver  that  drips  from  the  lips 
of  every  infidel.  They  are  to  be  heard  in 
the  highways  ;  and  no  smattering  and  front- 
less  babbler  against  religion,  but  is  loud  in 
urging  the  same  superficial  and  absurd  in- 
vective. But  it  is  new,  and  strange,  and 
startling,  to  hear  such  stufi"  uttered  in  the 
character  of  a  religious  enthusiast  and  re- 
former. Hence  the  sensation  which  it  seems 
to  have  excited.  I  know  nothing  of  the 
author,  but  I  do  not  consider  myself  uncha- 
ritable in  concluding — your  favorable  opi- 
nion of  his  character  to  the  contrary  notwith- 
standing— that  he  is  either  inimical  to  Chris- 
tianity, or  that  his  mind  is  muddled  with  the 
crotchety  and  insane  extravagance,  which 
has,  under  the  name  of  philosophy,  addled 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


103 


the  brains  of  so  many  half-learned,  half-re- 
ligious, and  half-sincere,  speculators  of  the 
age.  This  is  '  the  age  of  enlightenment  f 
Is  it  so  ?  Look  at  Mormonism,  which  the 
government  and  the  people,  you  and  I,  en- 
courage and  protect — polygamy  and  all — 
making  '  his  excellency,'  the  Arch  Impostor 
and  Chief  Demon,  an  august  officer  of  the 
United  States  government;  and  becoming 
accessory  to,  and  rewarding,  crimes  at  com- 
mon law  ;  crimes  the  most  revolting,  openly 
and  boastfully  committed.  We  will  soon 
have  half  a  million  of  these  wretches  in  the 
heart  of  our  continent ;  successfully  defying 
earth,  as  they  now  defy  heaven.  But  this — 
so  we  console  ourselves — is  mere  ignorance. 
Well,  then,  look  at  our  philosophy,  the  trans- 
cendental absurdities,  that,  in  some  sections 
of  our  own  country,  as  well  as  abroad,  have 
made  religion  infidelity,  and  infidelity  reli- 
gion; clothing  it  in  sacerdotal  robes,  and 
making  it  a  sanctity,  a  sect;  a  smooth-faced 
and  canting  religion,  perfect  in  all  things, 


104 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


except  the  trifling  omission  of— a  God  !  And 
in  science,  too,  so  styled ;  with  animal  mag- 
netism, and  its  miracles  and  myths ;  with 
the  '  knockings,'  and  a  hundred  other  horri- 
ble  phantoms,  all  rising  to  push  sacred,  and 
vital,  and  venerable  truth  from  its  throne, 
and  fill  the  mind  with  fearful  doubts,  or  hi 
liefs  still  more  fearful. 

"  It  is  not,  my  dear  sir,  that  too  much 
hath  made  the  age  mad ;  ^  a  little  learning,' 
with  an  infinite  deal  of  presumption,  is  the 
^^  dangerous  thing.'     And  your  author  is  an 
instance  of  the  chaotic  confusion,  the  mis- 
shapen  follies,   and    frantic    extravagance, 
with  which  it  fills  unbalanced  and  epileptic 
intellects.     Nothing  is  assured,  or  fixed,  or 
venerable,  with   these   Bedlamites.      They 
become  Socialists  in  domestic   afiairs,   and 
piratical  propagandists  in  foreign ;  infidels  in 
religion,  and  agitators  in  all  things.     You 
remember   Wordsworth's    ^Rob    Roy:'    he 
gives  their  creed  to  a  hair.     I  quote  from  a 
doubtful  memory : 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC.  105 

"  <  Of  old  things,  all  are  over  old ; 

Of  good  things,  none  are  good  enough  ; 
We'll  join  and  make  another  world. 
Of  new  and  better  stuff.' 

"  There  are  various  degrees  of  insanity ; 
and  how  far  a  mind  diseased,  is  irresponsible 
for  its  crimes,  perhaps  we  cannot  say ;  but 
we  can  say  that,  the  criminal  act  itself,  is  not, 
therefore,  the  less  hateful;  and  no  act  is 
more  criminal,  than  a  cold,  wanton,  delibe- 
rate calumny  against  religion.  Such  a  ca- 
lumny is  the  assertion,  that,  not  only  no  ex- 
emplification of  the  character  of  a  Christian, 
'  hut  no  approach  to  it  can  he  found'  The  mis- 
creant Paine  has  uttered  nothing  more  reck- 
less, nor  more  guilty.  I  thank  God  that  I 
hnoio  Christians,  the  daily  beauty  of  whose 
life  would — if  a  doubt  disturbed  me — afford 
me  sufficient  proof,  palpable,  living  proof- 
as  decisive  as  a  daily  miracle — of  all  the 
truth  of  Christianity.  I  am  not  young,  nor 
unversed  in  men,  nor  unfamiliar  with  the 
examination  of  testimony;  nor  heated  by 


106 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


fanaticism,  in  this;  nor  am  I,  nor  can  I  be, 
mistaken  in  asserting  that,  the  effects  of 
Eeligion,  as  I  witness  it  in  the  hfe  and  cha- 
racter of  some  Christians  now  in  my  mind, 
are  as  strange,  as  miraculous,  as  triumphant 
and  conclusive  evidence,  as  would  be  a 
radiant  writing  on  the  firmament,  by  the 
visible  hand  of  an  archangel.  Has  the 
author  of  the  "  Themes"  been  stricken  with 
moral  blindness,  or  is  his  defect  of  vision 
that  which  Coleridge  so  gloriously  describes, 
as  existing  in  the  Atheist.  It  is  a  pet  pas- 
sage— and  though  familiar  to  you,  I  must 
repeat  it  : 

"  '  The  owlet,  Atheism, 
Sailing  on  obscure  wings  athwart  the  noon, 
Drops  his  blue-fringed  lids,  and  holds  them  close ; 
And,  hooting  at  the  glorious  sun  in  heaven, 
Cries  out —  Where  is  it  f 

" '  Where  are  the  Christians,  &c.' — '  Themes' 

"  But  I  had  intended  merely  to  thank  you 

for  your  volume,  not  to  punish  you  for  it : 

to  express  the  great  gratification  which  I 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


107 


have  derived  from  the  soundness  of  its 
views,  the  boldness  and  vigor  of  its  argu- 
ment, and  the  animated  elevation  and 
eloquence  of  its  style ;  and  not  to  intrude 
upon  the  discussion.  But,  since  I  have 
been  unwittingly  betrayed  into  so  serious  a 
trespass  upon  your  patience,  let  me  fill  the 
measure  of  my  presumption,  by  a  sugges- 
tion, to  which  I  attach  some  little  import- 
ance. 

^^I  read  with  especial  pleasure  your  re- 
marks on  Pauperism,  and  the  topics  associa- 
ted with  it.  My  views  on  this  subject  are 
practical,  and  have  not  been  lightly  nor 
loosely  adopted ;  and,  permit  me  to  say  that, 
I  have  a  more  assured  confidence  in  them, 
since  I  find  that  they  so  entirely  accord 
with  your  own.  I  regard  this  portion  of 
your  volume  as  practically  invaluable;  so 
much  so,  that  I  would  be  much  gratified  to 
see  a  more  general  and  popular  circulation 
given  it,  than  can  be  secured  for  any  book, 
however    admirably   written.      Could    not 


108 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


109 


this  portion  of  the  ^Review/  be  detached 
from  the  body  of  it;  and,  by  a  slight  modi- 
fication, adapted  to  publication  in  one  of 
our  journals  of  high  character,  and  exten- 
sive   circulation, — say   the ? 

The  subject  is  so  important,  the  views  are 
so  novel,  interesting,  and  truthful,  that  I 
know  they  w^ould  be  read  with  pleasure  and 
profit  by  thousands,  who  would  not  other- 
wise see  them.  The  mode  that  occurs  to 
me  as  the  readiest,  would  be  a  communica- 
tion, giving  the  chapters  referred  to,  as  an 
extract,  containing  facts  and  considerations, 
valuable  to  the  community  at  large." 


From  the  (PMla.)  Pennsylvania  Inquirer  and  Courier, 

October,  14,  1852. 

THE   AUTHOR   OF   NEW   THEMES   FOR   THE    PROTESTANT 
CLERGY   AND   HIS   REVIEWER. 

Messrs.  Editors: — I  have  recently  had 
my  attention  called  to  a  late  work  from 
the   enterprising   book   firm  of  Lippincott, 


Grambo,  &  Co.,  entitled  "  New  Themes  for 
the  Protestant  Clergy,''  &c.,  &c.  Though  not 
professing  to  be  an  infidel  production,  the 
tendency  of  its  reasoning  is  in  the  direction 
of  Infidelity;  for,  to  carry  out  its  conclu- 
sion to  a  legitimate  issue,  would  certainly 
be  to  land  its  supporters  there.  It  is  the 
bitterest  tirade  that  has  ever  come  under 
our  notice  against  the  whole  system  of 
Christian  charity,  hut  without  goiiig  one  step 
towards  providing  vs  with  a  better  one.  Had 
not  our  inquiries  satisfied  us  that  the  author 
was  not  an  infidel,  we  should  certainly  have 
deemed  him  at  best,  secretly  one;  though 
he  professes  faith  in  religious  truth.  Yet 
what  infidel  does  not?  They  all,  from 
Bolingbroke  to  Paine — if  I  may  be  forgiven 
for  employing  such  names  in  such  a  con- 
nexion— profess  faith  in  what  they  term 
"  True  religion,"  yet  exercise  every  faculty 
of  their  minds  and  hearts,  to  sap  the  foun- 
dation of  the  best  system  of  religion — to  say 

10 


110 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


Ill 


the  least  of  Christianity,  that  has  ever  been 
given  to  man. 

Like  infidel  writers,  too,  our  author  is  a 
great  stickler  for  wholesale  clmritij ;  and  the 
word  occurs,  at  a  rough  estimate,  at  least 
four  hundred  times  in  his  book.     He  charges 
a   universal  want  of  it  in  man,  and  par- 
ticularly in  Christian  men;  and  best  exem- 
plifies his   position   in   his  own  case — sup- 
posing his  work  to  be  a  fair  exponent  of  his 
feelings; — for   a  more   uncliaritaUe  produc- 
tion, taken   altogether,  it  has   never  been 
our  fortune  to   meet  with.      Among  other 
things,  he  declares   that   Christian  writers 
have  been  so  derelict  in  theoretical  as  well 
as  practical  charity,  that  "  there  is  not  in 
the  English  language  an  elaborate  work  on 
the    subject."     We    do    not    know    what 
amount   of  printed   matter   he  would   call 
"  elaborate,"  or  whether  he  expects  a  volu- 
minous work  after  the  style  of  our  modern 
cyclopaedias,  compassing  a  circle  of  general 
religious  knowledge;  but   it  would  not  be 


i\ 


difficult  to  prove  that  charity,  as  a  Chris- 
tian duty,  is  as  thoroughly  taught,  as  tho- 
roughly believed,  and  as  thoroughly  prac- 
tised, by  the  professed  followers  of  Christ, 
as  any  other  one  duty,  if  it  is  not  the  hur- 
den  of  nearly  all  Christian  teaching. 

As  a  proof,  that  Christians  are  behind 
even  non-professors,  he  says  that  the  whole 
expenditure  of  Protestant  congregations  "for 
every  purpose,"  is  derived  in  a  large  degree 
from  those  who  are  not  Christians;  and 
again,  that  "a  very  small  portion  of  moneys 
collected  for  Christian  purposes,  would  be 
received,  if  allowed  to  flow  in  by  spontane- 
ous contribution."  Not  to  notice  the  mon- 
strous assumption  of  this  assertion,  we  will 
merely  remark,  that  it  either  proves  too 
much  for  the  author's  argument,  or  nothing 
at  all ;  for  if  the  great  bulk  of  charitable 
contribution  comes  from  those  who  are  not 
Christians,  it  proves  nothing  against  that 
class,  that  it  does  not  flow  voluntarily.  To 
show,  however,  our  author's  error  in  this 


112 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


matter,  it  so  happens  that  the  congregation 
with  which  the  writer  of  this  article  wor- 
ships,  last  year   abandoned  the  system  of 
soliciting  moneys  from  the  church  for  the 
ordinary  purposes  of  charity,  as  it  had  been 
usual  to  do;  and  the  amount  received  was 
thirty-one   Jiundred   dollars,    more   or    less; 
being  about  a  hundred  dollars  more  than 
usual.    But  I  would  ask  the  author  of  "  New 
Themes,"  if  his  admission  of  ih^  effort  made 
by  Christians  to  collect  moneys  for  chari- 
table  objects,  which  he  tacitly  condemns, 
does  not  prove  the  opposite  of  his  deduc- 
tions ? 

But  the  object  of  my  remarks  at  the  out- 
set, was  to  notice  a  review  of  this  work  of 
"New  Themes,"  &c.,  which  has  just  appear- 
ed from  the  same  press,  entitled  a  "Review 
of  New  TJwmes;'  &c.  by  a  Layman,  which  I 
have  just  risen  from  perusing;  and  would 
say  that,  whatever  of  pain   I   may   have 
experienced  in  reading  the  first,  has  been 
entirely  removed  by  the  latter.     It  is  said 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


113 


', 


of  Henry  Clay,  that  upon  one  occasion,  in 
the   House    of   Representatives,   when    an 
enthusiastic  new  member,  ^^in  fleshing  his 
maiden   sword,"  had   concluded   a  flaming 
speech,   in   which  he  roundly  berated   the 
whole   world   in    general,   and    the   Whig 
party  in  particular,  the  old  lion  raised  his 
tall   form  in  the   air,  and  pronounced  dx 
emphatic  words;  after  which,  the  new  mem- 
ber   disappeared    precipitately,   and    never 
was  seen  in  Congress  afterwards.     Now  if 
the   author  of  "New  Themes,"  &c.,   ever 
appears  again  as  a  caterer  for  public  favor 
in  a  published  work,  we  will  be  greatly  mis- 
taken in  our  estimate  of  human  character! 
While  the  reasoning  of  a  "  Layman"  is  con- 
clusive, his  declamation  is  scathing,  and  his 
sarcasm  burning. 

It  has  always  been  the  fate  of  such  works 
as  "  New  Themes,"  &c.,  that  they  raise  up 
reviewers,  who,  in  the  course  of  their  work, 
often  evolve  new  lights;  sometimes  bring- 
ing  in   collateral    evidence,  of   great   mo- 


10* 


114 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


ment,  which,  but  for  this,  might  have  lain 
dormant ;  as  in  the  case  before  us,  we  have 
some  interesting  and  important  statistics  on 
the  results  of  intemperance,  as  a  principal 
cause  of  pauperism.  Watson's  reply  to 
Paine,  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  works  on 
the  subject  of  which  it  treats,  in  the  lan- 
guage, and  would  never  have  been  written,  but 
for  the  production  of  the  "  Age  of  Reason," 
and  the  other  infidel  works  of  that  most  in- 
famous writer.  The  more  monstrous  the 
initiatives  have  been,  the  more  certain  has 
been  their  fate,  and  so  with  the  work  before 
us ;  but  we  would  advise  all  who  desire  to 
see  a  conclusive  vindication  of  Christian 
effort  in  the  work  of  charity,  to  procure  a 
copy,  and  especially  those  who  have  read 
"  New  Themes,"  &c. 

Very  respectfully, 

L.  M.  B. 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


115 


From  the  editorial  columns  of  the  Pennsylvania  Inquirer, 

Oct.  27,  1852. 


CRIME  AND  ITS   CAUSES — THE  CHARITIES 
OF   PHILADELPHIA. 

We  have  read  with  pleasure,  and  we  hope 
not  without  advantage,  a  well-written  and 
powerful  work,  published  by  Lippincott, 
Grambo  &  Co.,  entitled  "A  Eeview,  by  a 
Layman,  of  New  Themes  for  the  Protestant 
Clergy,"  &c.  The  object  of  the  author  of 
the  latter  work,  "  New  Themes,"  is  to  show 
that  he  refers  to  "  creeds  without  charity — 
theology  without  humanity — and  Protestant- 
ism without  Christianity  ;"  and  we  think,  on 
a  careful  perusal  of  the  Review  by  a  Lay- 
man, that  the  work  reviewed  is  not  only 
analysed  with  critical  acumen,  but  its  errors, 
singular  contradictions,  and  assumptions, 
rather  than  arguments,  are  pursued  to  demo- 
lition. In  all  his  points  the  "  Layman"  is 
cogent  and  clear — sound  and  logical — fairly 


116 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


117 


quoting  to  the  reader,  every  passage  from 
the  "  Themes,"  that  he  attacks.     Although 
not  directly  charged,  the  tendency  of  "  New 
Themes,"  is  to  induce  readers  to  suppose  that 
much  of  the  crime  and  pauperism  of  the  day, 
is  to  be  ascribed  to  the  neglect  of  the  Protes- 
tant clergy — than   which   nothing  can   be 
more  incorrect ;  and  this  is  fairly  shown  by  a 
Layman,  who  not  only  ascribes  the  evils  to 
their  true  causes,  but  successfully  vindicates 
the  clergy  from  insinuations  which  are  so 
discreditably  untrue.     One  great  cause — in- 
temperance— is  all  but  omitted  by  the  author 
of  "  New  Themes" — and  "  A  Layman"  after 
showing  by  statistics  from  Bishop  Potter  and 
Judge  Kelly,  the  enormous  amount  of  evil 
entailed  upon  Philadelphia  by  the  abuse  of 
ardent  spirits— justly  demands — "  Is  it  not 
passing  strange  that  our  critic  did  not  think 
proper  to  advert  to  these  facts,  as  accounting 
for  the  great  increase  of  pauperism  amongst 
us  ?"    But  the  sins  of  omission  are  almost  as 
numerous  as  those  of  commission,  in  "  New 


ii 


Themes" — idleness,  intoxication,  evil  asso- 
ciations and  dispositions  among  men,  seem 
to  go  for  nothing  with  the  sophistical  author, 
so  that  he  can  but  indulge  his  amiable  desire 
and  propensity,  which  seek  gratification  in 
blaming  the  Protestant  clergy  of  all  sects. 
His  attacks  upon  the  clergy  of  the  Church  of 
England,  are  especially  savage — but  this  may 
be  ascribed  to  prejudice  and  the  want  of  ac- 
curate information — as  the  said  clergy  head 
charities  innumerable  in  every  city,  town  and 
parish.     The  inference  that  little  or  nothing 
is  done  by  American  Christians  for  the  poor, 
is  finely  answered  by  a  few  pages  devoted  to 
the  Charities  of  Philadelphia  alone.    A  Lay- 
man says : — "  In  addition  to  the  vast  sum  of 
$189,000  distributed  to  the  poor  by  the  pub- 
lic authorities  in  1851,  of  which  Christians, 
of   course,   contribute    a  large   proportion, 
there    are   in  Philadelphia,  upon    a  mode- 
rate estimate,  two  hundred  charitable  socie- 
ties conducted  by  private  agency  (of  which 
about  one  hundred  and  sixty  are  directly 


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NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


connected  with  Christian  churches),  whose 
duty  it  is  to  clothe  the  naked  and  provide 
for  the  destitute.    We  have  reason  to  believe 
that  at  least  twelve  thousand  poor  children 
(we  do  not  include  those  belonging  to  the 
better-off  classes)  are  weekly  gathered  toge- 
ther on  Sunday,  for  religious  instruction.    It 
is  probably  much  within  bounds  to  say,  five 
thousand  five  hundred  male  and  female  visi- 
ters are  employed,  more  or  less,  in  visiting 
the  lanes  and  alleys  of  our  city  and  suburbs, 
ministering  to  the  temporal   and   spiritual 
wants  of  the  poor.     In  one  case  alone,  more 
than  two  hundred  ladies  divide  the  city  and 
suburbs  into  sections,  and  appoint  visiters, 
whose  self-imposed  duty  it  is,  to  visit  every 
dwelling  where  the  existence  of  poverty  is 

known,  or  suspected." 

***** 

"  In  New  York,  our  largest  city,  it  is  com- 
puted that  one  out  of  every  seven  receives 
aid  from  his  or  her  fellow-citizens."  But  a 
want  of  space  necessarily  limits  our  notice. 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


119 


We  will,  therefore,  conclude,  by  stating  that 
"  A  Layman"  admirably  defends  the  attack 
in  the  "  New  Themes"  on  the  British  Poor 
Laws,  which  certainly  form  the  most  exten- 
sive public  charity,  properly  considered,  in 
the  civilized  world — and  the  defence  is  inte- 
resting to  the  United   States — seeing  that 
our   institutions  for  relieving  the  poor  are 
similar — while  aid  is  given  and  industry  en- 
couraged far  more  efficiently  than  could  pos- 
sibly  be   done   by   individual    alms-giving, 
however  well  devised.     Could  the  author  of 
"  New  Themes"  provide  any  effective  and 
eleemosynary  substitute  for  that  noble  in- 
stitution, the   Blockley   Almshouse  ?     We 
think  not.     But  it  would  be  a  waste  of  time 
and  words  to  enter  into  an  argument  in  favor 
of  that  great  triumph  of  Christianity  and 
civilization — a  public  poor  law.     That  it  is 
sometimes  abused  is  no  argument  against  it, 
for  such  is  the  fate  of  everything  human. 
Before  Poor  Laws  existed,  says  an  English 
author,  the  country  was  overrun  by  thieves 


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and  vagabonds.  "  A  Layman"  gives  an  ad- 
mirable history  of  these  laws — and  in  reply 
to  the  sneering  comments  against  them,  we 
would  ask  the  author  of  "  New  Themes" — 
whether  in  the  ancient  Pagan  nations — or  in 
modern  Mahommedan  or  Hindoo  countries, 
he  can  point  out  hospitals  or  poor  laws  for 
the  relief  of  suffering  humanity  ?  No !  such 
triumphs  were  reserved  for  the  beneficent 
spirit  of  Christianity,  and  the  refinement  and 
mental  elevation  which  it  produced.  We 
will  only  add  that,  all  who  have  read  the  at- 
tack, should  peruse  the  reply,  and  thus  per- 
mit the  antidote  to  follow  the  bane. 


EXTRACT  FROM  A  LETTER  FROM  THE  GENTLEMAN 
WHO  ADVISED  A  BOOKSELLER  NOT  TO  SELL  "NEW 
THEMES  :"  HIS  OPINION  IS  QUOTED  ON  A  PRECEDING 
PAGE.*      ALSO,  SEE  "  REVIEW." 

"  Circumstances  have  prevented  me  from 

*  The  same  gentleman  who  writes: — "I  have  read 
the  'New  Themes'  carefully;  and  am  glad  that  you  have 
reviewed  it :  for  it  is  a  very  bad  book,  and  yet,  a  very 
ingenious  one." 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


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thanking  you,  as  every  one  zealous  for  the 
truth  ought  to  do,  for  the  strictures  you 
have  lately  published  upon  ^New  Themes 
for  the  Protestant  Clergy.'  If  more  severe 
than  the  author  likes,  they  are  certainly  not 
more  so  than  the  circumstances  of  the  case 
require ;  for  the  dangerous  character  of  his 
book  could  not  be  sufficiently  exposed  and 
proven,  without  a  plainness  of  speech,  that 
your  regard  for  truth  would  not  permit  you 
to  dispense  with. 

"  A  great  deal  has  been  said  about  the  pu- 
rity of  motive,  and  blamelessness  of  life,  of 
the  author  of '  New  Themes.' 

"  But  supposing  it  all  true,  suppose  he  has 
only  fallen  into  a  ruinous  error,  and  fatal 
mistake ; — is  that  any  reason  why  his  error 
should  not  be  exposed,  and  his  mistake  rec- 
tified? On  the  contrary,  when  people  of 
standing  and  character  in  society,  embrace 
and  disseminate  pernicious  opinions,  it  seems 
to  me  *  *  the  necessity  for  refuting  them 

becomes  more  urgent. 

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"  Must  truth  be  sacrificed  to  names  ?  And 
the  worst  sentiments  to  be  suffered  to  pass  un- 
contradicted, on  the  ground  of  the  character 
of  those  holding  them  ? 

"  Unless  the  author  of '  New  Themes/  be- 
long to  that  class  of  persons  who  '  must  be 
trepanned  before  they  can  be  convinced,'  he 
must  by  this  time,  I  should  think,  say  pec- 
cavi.  But,  however  that  may  be,  I  sincerely 
rejoice  that  a  furious  attack  upon  ministers 
of  the  Gospel,  by  a  Layman,  has  been  an- 
swered with  so  much  ability,  by  one  of  his 
own  order." 


From  the  Inquirer. 

A  NOTICE   OF    <^  HINTS   TO   A  LAYMAN,"    AND   OTHER 

WORKS. 

Messrs.  Editors,— Some  time  since  there 
appeared  in  the  reading  world  a  publication 
under  the  "  taking"  title  of  "  New  Themes 
for  the  Protestant  Clergy  !"  It  professed  to 
be  an  exposition  of  facts  going  to  show  the 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


123 


entire  absence  of  the  attribute  of  cJmrity  in 
the   present    Protestant    Christian   system, 
which  it  calls  a  system  of  "  Creeds  without 
Charity,  Theology  without  Humanity,  and 
Protestantism  without  Christianity."      The 
author — himself   a    professed    Christian — 
leads  his  readers  through  a  maze  of  misrepre- 
sentations, as  has  been  shown,  and  assump- 
tions  which    are   self-evident,  clothing  the 
whole  with  an  essay  on  the  necessity  of  Re- 
form, and  spicing  it  with  the  severest  ani- 
madversions against  the  present  system  of 
religious  teaching !     He  denies  in  set  terms 
the  existence  of  the  principle  of  Charity  in 
the  Protestantism,  Theology,  and  Creeds  of 
the   Churches.      Both    in    conception   and 
style,  his  work  is  of  a  character  such  as  any 
professed  sceptic  might  have  written  without 
compromising  either  his  position  or  his  dig- 
nity, (!)   and  with  less  evil  to  the  cause  of 
Christ;    for,  coming   professedly   from   the 
Christian  ranks,  it  will  be  extensively  read 
and  extensively  quoted  by  every  infidel  and 


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scoffer  of  every  hue.  In  fact,  it  will  be  to 
them  a  never-failing  spring  of  bitterness,  into 
which,  at  their  leisure,  they  may  dip  their 
pen  of  gall  to  besmear,  hy  authority,  the 
Christian  character. 

If  the  object  of  the  author  had  been  re- 
form, as  his  friends  assert,  the  bitterness  of 
his  invective,  as  he  ought  to  have  known, 
would  have  defeated  his  purpose ;  or,  if  the 
motive  had  been  the  furtherance  of  his  Mas- 
ter's Kingdom,  a  meeker  spirit  of  love,  and  a 
closer  adherence  to  truth,  would  have  ac- 
complished more,  and  become  him  better; 
but  if  his  object  were  simply  to  "  write  a 
book,"  from  the  laudable  desire  to  obtain  a 
name,  he  has  probably  succeeded;  though 
not,  it  is  but  charity  to  suppose,  as  he  could 
have  most  desired ;  but  whatever  has  been 
the  result  to  his  own  feeling,  it  is  certain  that 
his  work  has  caused  much  pain  to  many 
right-minded  Christians,  and  to  none  more 
than  those  of  the  author's  own  household  of 
faith,  and  some  even  of  his  immediate  friends. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


125 


Of  the  many  expressions  which  the  present 
writer  has  heard  upon  the  subject,  all,  with, 
perhaps,  a  single  exception,  have  heartily 
condemned  the  work,  as  unchristian  in  its 
temper,  and  mischievous  in  its  tendency.* 
But  it  has  been  met,  and  having  spared 
none,  has  not  been  spared !  In  a  brief  re- 
view from  the  pen  of  one  in  the  same  walks 
of  life  as  our  author  himself,  his  book  has 
been  examined  in  a  fair  and  candid  spirit, 
and  in  a  manner  at  once  caustic  and  tho- 
rough, such  as  was  befitting  the  subject. 

The  reviewer,  throughout  his  book,  quotes 
his  author  so  liberally  on  each  point,  as  to 
render  it  almost  superfluous  to  read  the  ori- 
ginal, and  then  examines  each  statement 
seriatim  to  the  end.  I  undertake  to  say  that 
no  book  of  the  kind  was  ever  reviewed  with 

*  Note  this:  this  gentleman— a  zealous  and  hard- 
working philanthropist,  and  mingling  with  men  like- 
minded,  and  alike  active  in  good  works— is  doubtful 
whether  he  has  once  heard  2^  favorable  opinion  of  ^'New 

Themes."     This  speaks  volumes ! 

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more  fairness,  as  every  disinterested  reader 
must  acknowledge ;  and  in  proof  of  the  satis- 
faction it  has  given  to  the  Christian  com- 
munity, the  reviewer,  as  I  am  credibly  in- 
formed, has  had  poured  in  upon  him,  from 
every  quarter  of  the  Church,  and  from  dis- 
tant regions  of  the  country,  letters  congratu- 
latory of  his  efforts  and  success,  many  of 
which,  are  from  gentlemen  among  the  high- 
est in  his  author's  own  Church,  distinguished 
for  their  learning,  their  piety,  and  their 
Christian  works. 

Among  the  first  to  hail  this  "  Review" 
of  "A  Layman,"  was  the  writer  of  this 
article,  who  foreseeing  that  the  "New 
Themes,"  because  they  were  2X)pular  themes  ! 
would  be  extensively  read,  heartily  accepted 
the  "  Review"  as  a  counter  influence  ;  which, 
though  it  could  not  be  expected  to  stop  the 
sale  of  the  other,  would  yet  prevent  any 
pernicious  effects  upon  the  minds  of  those 
who  might  read  both;  not  supposing,  for  a 
moment,  that  any  one  from   the  Christian 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


127 


ranks  would  be  found  to  volunteer  in   de- 
fence of  the   book  under  review.      But  it 
seems  that  I  was  mistaken,  for  one  has  re- 
cently appeared  in  the  form  of  a  writer, 
whose  book  I  have  just  seen,  and  who  signs 
himself  "Episcopus" — though  in  a  note  he 
says  "  hut  not  an  Episcopalian' — which  leaves 
his  readers  to  doubt  as  to  whether  he  intends 
it  as  a  sneer  at  that  denomination  of  Chris- 
tians, which  is  but  poor  argument  and  foreign 
to  the  subject ;  or,  desires  to  convey  the  im- 
pression that  he  is  a  Christian,  when  he 
really  is  not  one,  and  adding  the  note  to 
allay  any  issue  with  his   own  conscience! 
But  to  give  him  the  full  benefit  of  the  more 
charitable  construction,  we  will  allow  that 
he  is  a  Christian,  and  that  he  is  sincere  in 
his  views   as  expressed  in  his  book.     We 
would  also  accord  him  a  fair  share  of  learn- 
ing ;  but  will  all  or  any  of  these  palliate  the 
gross  character  of  some  of  his  charges  upon 
"  A  Layman  ?" 

In  what  school  of  ethics,  even,  or  of  man- 


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ners,  to  say  nothing  of  Christianity,  was  he 
educated,  to  charge  Pharisaical  conduct  upon 
his  author?     And  the  following:  "A  reli- 
gionist/' says  he,  "  who  wquld  officially  drop 
a  tract  at  the  door  where  he  would  scorn  to 
stop,  and  minister  a  persuasive  word  ?"     He 
affects,  however,  to  gather  this  character  of 
the  reviewer  from  his  book ;  but  further  on, 
acknowledges  that  he  knows  who  the  author 
is.      I  would  recommend  him  then,  if  he 
would  prove  his  faith,  to  go  just  as  far  as  "A 
Layman"  in  the  work  of  counselling  the  un- 
godly !     So  much  for  his  manner.     A  word 
for  the  matter  of  "  Episcopus,"  whose  work 
is  a  small  book,  published  in  the  form  of  let- 
ters, and  entitled  "  Hints  to  a  Layman  ;"  the 
design  of  the  writer  being  at  once  to  attack 
the  reviewer  of  "  New  Themes,"  and  to  de- 
fend that  work,  or  rather  the  author  of  the 
work ;  for  it  is  curious  to  observe  that  he 
generally  condemns  his  hx)k :  not  only  in  its 
arrangement  and  "  style,"  but  in  its  "  posi- 
tions," its  "manner,"  and  its  "  matter  !"  leav- 


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129 


ing  the  author  only  the  credit  of  good  mo- 
tives, which  his  reviewer  has  not  impugned ; 
sometimes  his  condemnation  is  so  decided  as 
to  render  it  doubtful  whether  he  does  not 
intend  to  be  ironical  in  his  defence  of  New 
Themes,  until,  indeed,  his  attack  upon  the 
reviewer  removes  the  doubt ;  for  instance,  on 
page  20  he  says:  "There  are,  we  grant, 
many  apparently  conflicting  positions  taken 
by  the  author  of  New  Themes,  which,  did 
we  not  know  his  designs,  we  would  say  were 
irreconcilable  :"  and  again, "  The  very  strong 
view  he  takes  of  a  particular  truth,  does  in- 
deed, at  times,  savor  of  a  degree  of  one-sided- 
ness,  which  is  alien  from  the  true  philoso- 
phical character ;"  and  again  at  page  34  : 
"  We  do  not  entirely  agree  with  the  author 
as  to  the  full  validity  of  his  view  on  this 
topic ;"  and  "  we  wish  that  he  had  used  a 
somewhat  diflerent  tone  on  this  head ;"  and 
on  the  next  page,  "  We  do  not  think  our  au- 
thor is  wholly  free  from  censure  as  regards 
the  manner  in  which  he  has  set  forth  the 


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topic  in  question ;"  and  again,  "  In  this  case, 
as  in  some  others,  we  think  he  has  fallen 
into  an  error;"  and  once  more,  at  page  36, 
he  says :  "  His  views  of  systematic  theology 
do  not  answer  to  what  we   think   can  be 
shown  to  be  its  true  functions  from  the  Scrip- 
tures :"  and  yet  "  Episcopus''  can  defend  this 
work!      After   this   we    may   sagely    ask, 
"what's  in  a  name  T— and  not  content  with 
defending  it  only,  he  can  descend  into  the 
arena  of  personal  abuse,  to  attack  a  reviewer 
with  whom  he  seems  to  agree ;  and  whose 
love  for  the  cause  of  Christ  has  induced  him, 
as  a  matter  of  duty,  to  defend  it  against  the 
rambling  attacks  of  our  unscrupulous,  and 
therefore,  dangerous,  writer. 

It  is  nothing  to  the  purpose  for  "  Episco- 
pus"  to  assume  that  the  motives  of  the  author 
of  "  New  Themes"  are  good.  Who  will  stop 
to  inquire  about  his  motives,  when  his  hook 
is  dealing  out  misrepresentations  dangerous 
to  the  Christian  cause ! 

With  one  more  extract  from  "  Hints  to  a 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


131 


Layman,"  I  shall  close  this  article.  On  page 
43,  the  author  says  that  our  reviewer's  book 
"  treats  its  subject  as  if  evidence  and  argu- 
ments were  no  helps  to  the  judgment  of  its 
assumed  infallibility ;  as  if  he  whom  it  ana- 
thematizes as  an  infidel  surely  must  be  so;" 
and  on  the  next  page,  "  Assuming  the  author 
of  '  New  Themes'  to  be  an  infidel^  he  tor- 
tures, garbles,  exaggerates  and  misrepresents 
his  book  to  prop  up  his  foregone  conclusion." 
Now  the  author  of  those  quotations  knows 
well  enough  that  the  reviewer  of  "  New 
Themes"  does  not  assume  the  author  to  be 
an  ''  infidel."  He  knows  very  well  that  the 
reviewer  has  in  half  a  dozen  places  in  his 
book  admitted  his  belief  that  his  author  was 
a  Christian,  and  in  no  place,  I  repeat  it,  does 
he  assume  him  to  be  an  infidel !  though  he 
several  times  says  that  he  writes  like  an  infi- 
del ;  and  that  had  he  no  other  evidence  than 
his  book,  he  would  adjudge  him  to  be  one. 
This  is  the  nearest  approach  the  reviewer 
makes  to  the  charge  of  "  Episcopus"  that  he 


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has  "  anathematized  his  author  as  an  infi- 
del !" 

I  leave  you,  Messrs.  Editors,  and  the  pub- 
lic, to  make  your  own  inferences  from  what 
has  been  said  above.  Having  no  interest  in 
the  matter  myself,  except  the  general  one, 
that  the  cause  of  Justice,  and  Truth,  and 
Charity,  should  triumph  over  misrepresenta- 
tion and  a  false  philosophy,  which  seeks  to 
fasten,  under  the  garb  of  love  to  Humanity, 
half  a  dozen  more  isms  upon  the  age.  Nor 
have  I  volunteered  my  services  in  the  expec- 
tation of  aiding  our  reviewer ;  that  were  a 
work  of  supererogation.  He  has  shown  him- 
self abundantly  able  to  defend  his  own  posi- 
tions, without  the  help  of  adventitious  aid. 
Thrice  is  he  armed  whose  cause  is  just. 

Yours,  respectfully, 

L.  M.  B. 

Philadelphia,  Jan.  25,  1853. 


CONCLUSION. 


At  the  conclusion  of  this  formidable  array 
of  "  opinions,"  sufficient,  we  should  think,  to 
make  the  most  bigoted  and  obstinate  author 
at  least  begin  to  suspect  the  soundness  of  his 
position,  we  beg  to  quote  a  paragraph  from 
our  author's  "  Some  Notice  of  a  Review,"  &c. : 

"  As  the  Review  has  been  favorably  re- 
ceived by  some,  it  becomes  matter  of  regret 
that,  for  want  of  knowing  better,  or  a  little 
reflection,  such  have  chosen,  instead  of  walk- 
ing in  the  lofty  ways  of  Christianity,  to  take 
for  their  leader  one  with  whom,  if  they  go 
far,  they  will  find  themselves  moving  in  that 
low  path  where  the  blind,  who  are  leaders  of 
the  blind,  are  prone  to  go." 

Is  not  this  exquisitely  courteous  and  re- 
spectful in  the  author  of  "  New  Themes  ?" 
Those  who  do  not  see  as  he  sees,  are  "blind;" 

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134 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


those  who  are  suspicious  of  the  safety  of  his 
^'  path/'  are  walking  in  that  "  low  path,"  &e. 

We  have  had  a  Chesterfield,  ere  this,  to 
teach  us  politeness,  and  a  Melancthon  to  illus- 
trate cliarity, — but  to  find  Chesterfield  and 
Melancthon  combined,  in  this  age  of  "  bark 
and  steel,"  is  really  overpowering ! 

For  some  instances  of  our  author's  clear- 
ness of  vision,  and  "  lofty  ways,"  we  refer  the 
reader  to  the  preceding  "Few  Words"  re- 
specting his  "  Some  Notice"  of  our  "  Review," 
and  to  that  hydra-headed  indictment  against 
Christendom  at  large,  entitled  "  New  Themes 
for  the  Protestant  Clergy."  '  But,  at  least,  we 
who  are  walking  in  the  "low  paths,"  with 
our  impaired  vision,  are  not  without  solace, 
derived  from  that  communion  in  misfortune, 
which  has  often  lightened  the  load  of  sufier- 
ing,  and  even  made  tolerable  the  gloom  of 
the  dungeon.  We  are  no  ignoble  band, — 
we  "  thirty"*  who  lead,  and  the  innumerable 

*  It  is  perhaps  unnecessary  to  say — but  it  may  be  as 
well  to  do  so  for  the  satisfaction  of  those  who  live  out  of 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


135 


army  who  follow.  Some,  at  least,  of  the 
"  mighty,"  and  of  the  "  noble,"  the  good  and 
the  wise,  the  merciful  and  the  charitable, 
who  have  taken  their  philanthropic  "de- 
gree," in  the  cell  of  the  captive,  and  at  the 
bedside  of  the  sick  and  dying — contribute  to 
swell  our  procession ;  to  give  "  ardor  to  vir- 
tue, and  confidence  to  truth." 

Some  authors,  in  casting  a  retrospective 
glance  at  their  attempts  to  instruct  or  amuse 
mankind,  have, enjoyed  the  unspeakable  gra- 
tification of  reflecting  that,  they  had 

"  Writ  no  line,  which,  dying,  they  would  wish  to  blot." 

Can  the  author  of  "  New  Themes,"  after 
the  heat  of  authorship  and  the  din  of  con- 
troversy have  subsided,  and  Conscience  has 
rendered  in  its  impartial  verdict,  be  able  to 
make  this  declaration  ?     "  We  are  persuaded 

the  bounds  of  Philadelphia— that  any  question  as  to  the 
authenticity  of  letters  which  have  been  quoted,  may  be 
easily  settled  by  application  to  the  publishers,  who  have 
the  address  of  the  Reviewer. 


136 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


better  things  of  him."  Believing  him  to  be 
sincere  in  good  intentions,  and  sound  at  heart 
as  a  philanthropist  and  a  Christian,  we  are 
persuaded  that  there  is  in  reserve  for  him  a 
season  of  regretful  retrospection,  and  the  re- 
morseful chastisement  of  a  spirit  wounded 
by  a  sense  of  deplored  transgression. 

Oft,  in  anticipating  that  solemn  hour  of 
honest  scrutiny,  which,  as  it  "comes  to 
all,  shall  come  to  him,"  we  have  in  imagi- 
nation heard  him  bewailing  himself  (like 
the  penitent  of  old)  over  the  sad  proofs  of 
his  error,  and  the  bitter  fruits  of  censure, 
unsanctified  by  charity,  and  of  zeal,  unin- 
formed by  knowledge.  Unless  we  greatly 
err,  somewhat  thus  will  he  take  himself  to 
task,  amidst  the  pangs  of  an  awakened  con- 
science, which  shall  need  no  prompter,  and 
in  the  bitterness  of  a  self-condemned  soul, 
which  is  its  own  accuser : 

"  Was  it  well  for  me  thus  to  lift  up  the 
voice  of  accusation  against  my  brethren, 
children,  by  spiritual  birth,  of  the  same  re- 


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137 


conciled  Father,  participants  in  the  same 
mercies,  inheritors  of  the  same  blessed  pro- 
mises ? 

"  When,  moved  by  the  gracious  invitations 
of  a  Saviour  s  love,  I  resolved  to  escape  from 
the  condemnation  of '  a  world  lying  in  wick- 
edness,' did  I  not  freely  cast  in  my  lot  with 
that  little  band  of  disciples,  whom  I  found 
struggling,  under  many  discouragements,  in 
a  warfare  of  trial,  of  sorrow,  and  of  temp- 
tation ?     I  found  them,  indeed,  not  exempt 
from  faults ;  but  was  I  perfect ;  not  free  from 
error ;  but  was  I  as  God,  to  declare  the  de- 
crees of  unerring  wisdom  ?     Was  it  for  me 
to  assert,  of  the  ambassadors  of  the  Most 
High,  that  it  was  '  rare  to  find  one  who  com- 
prehended the  teachings  of  His  Saviour?' 
thus  doing  all  that  in  me  lay,  to  bring  the 
character  of  God's  ministers  into  contempt 
with  those,  who,  otherwise,  might  have  been 
moved  by  their  entreaties  to  accept  of  that 
Saviour's   invitations   of  love  and  mercy? 
Was  it  for  me  to  bring  '  railing  accusation' 


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138 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,    ETC. 


against  my  brethren^  that  "^nowhere  were 
illustrations  of  Christ's  teachings  to  be  wit- 
nessed ;'  thus  hardening  the  infidel  in  his  un- 
belief, and  discouraging  those  who  had  been 
almost  persuaded  to  join  themselves  to  the 
people  of  God  ?  How  many  lost  souls  may 
rise  up,  in  the  Last  Day,  to  reproach  me  for 
that  infidelity  which  has  proved  their  ruin, 
for  that  neglect  of  the  Gospel,  in  which  my 
strictures  against  Christians  confirmed  them  ? 
Even  the  faithless  Prophet  could  ask  himself, 
^How  shall  I  curse,  whom  God  hath  not 
cursed  ?  Or,  how  shall  I  defy,  whom  the 
Lord  hath  not  defied  ?'  And  should  I  have 
been  more  hasty  to  condemn  those  whom 
God  hath  chosen  for  His  pecuUar  people  ?  I 
am  verily  guilty  concerning  my  brother,  and 
the  children  of  my  Father's  house  !  Nor  is 
it  any  excuse  for  my  fault,  that  I  did  this 
thing  ignorantly,  and  with  good  intent.  Is 
a  man  to  cast  about  '  firebrands,  arrows  and 
death,'  and  then  to  say,  '  Behold,  I  knew  it 
not,   neither   did   my   heart   consider?'      I 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


139 


should,  and  might,  have  known  that,  within 
the  bounds  of  my  own  place  of  residence, 
there  were  many  faithful  ministers  of  God, 
who  were  wearing  out  life  in  devotion  to  His 
service.  I  should,  and  might,  have  known 
that,  thousands  of  zealous  Christians  were 
daily  employed  in  the  office  of  '  visiting  the 
widow  and  the  fatherless  in  their  affiiction ;' 
in  supplying  the  necessities  of  the  body,  and 
seeking  the  salvation  of  the  soul. 

"Ah,  how  deeply  have  I  wounded  the 
hearts  of  such  exemplars  of  their  Saviour's 
precepts,  by  my  uncharitable  censures,  by 
my  unfounded  accusations!  How  many  a 
Christian  brother,  wearied  by  continued  mi- 
nistrations at  the  bedside  of  the  sick  and 
dying,  has  first  learned  from  my  pages,  that 
there  were  no  such  illustrations  of  the  teach- 
ings of  Jesus,  as  his  daily  labors  have  just 
exemplified!  How  many  an  advocate  of 
Christian  truth  has  had  his  mouth  closed  by 
the  infidel  finger  triumphantly  pointing  to 
my  pages,—'  There  is  no  such  thing  as  illus- 


140 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


trations  of  the  teachings  of  your  Saviour, 
one  of  your  own  number  being  your  judge. 
Hence  your  Christianity  must  be  a  fable,  and 
your  religion  vain.' " 

This  train  of  thought  naturally  suggests 
some  reflections,  with  which  we  shall  con- 
clude our  volume. 

At  all  times,  and  especially  in  this  day 
of  extensive  facilities  for  the  difi'usion  of 
thought,  how  great  is  the  responsibility  of 
him  who  publishes  his  sentiments  to  a  listen- 
ing world !  It  is  not  enough  that  his  object 
be  good.  The  host  who  carelessly  lights  a 
fire  to  warm  his  friend,  may  explode  a  maga- 
zine, which  shall  deal  death  to  his  guest : 
and  the  prospective  author  shall  hardly  be 
justified,  unless  excellence  of  intention  be 
seconded  by  the  most  careful  scrutiny,  and 
informed  by  the  lights  of  all  accessible  know- 
ledge. He  must  form  his  premises  with  the 
most  rigid  impartiality,  catechize  his  conclu- 
sions in  a  spirit  of  self-distrust  and  diffidence, 
and  weigh  his  words,  as  gold,  that  he  neither 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


141 


add  to,  nor  abstract  from,  the  exact  standard 
of  truth  and  justice.  Unless  he  exercise  all 
this  care,  he  may,  whilst  he  seeks  to  benefit, 
be  the  unwilling  instrument  of  wide-spread 
injury.  Instead  of  propagating  truth,  he 
may  discover,  to  his  sorrow,  that  he  has 
been  giving  currency  to  error. 

And  if  error,  even  in  its  infancy,  be  so 
evil  a  thing,  how  much  is  its  malign  influ- 
ence increased,  by  maturity  of  growth,  and 
power  of  reproduction !  If  the  monster  be 
so  venomous  in  its  nature,  as  to  cause  us  to 
deprecate  its  birth,  well  may  we  fear  its  ra- 
vages, when  it  has  acquired  strength  to  as- 
sail, and  wings  to  fly.  And  can  it  not,  by 
taking  the  wings  of  the  press,  penetrate  into 
every  household,  and  extend  its  poisonous 
influence  to  the  ends  of  the  earth  ? 

If  I  must  be  careful  of  what  I  whisper  to 
my  neighbor  in  my  "  closet,"  how  anxiously 
must  I  ponder  that  which  I  proclaim  upon 
the  "house-top!"  Let  circumspection  pre- 
vent future  repentance :  let  me  pause  long. 


142 


NEW   THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


ere  I  utter  that  which  I  can  never  recall. 
Larger  information,  added  experience,  ma- 
turer  consideration,  may  enlarge  my  scope, 
correct  my  deductions,  and  modify,  or  en- 
tirely change,  my  opinions ; — but  can  I  be 
certain  that  these  advantages  will  ever  occur 
to  him  whom  I  have  misled  by  my  ignorance, 
or  perverted  by  my  error  ? 

Whilst,  "  clothed  in  sackcloth,"  I  may  de- 
plore my  mistake,  those  regretted  errors  are 
doing  the  work  of  death,  in  a  thousand  chan- 
nels, which  I  am  powerless  to  close  !  They 
have  gone  forth,  and,  circulated  by  the  press, 
quoted  at  the  bar,  perchance  sounded  from 
the  pulpit,  I  hear  on  every  side,  the  echo  of 
that  which  I  cannot  disavow,  though  I  would 
fain  repudiate.  Ay,  I  may  indeed  regret, 
but  reeaU — I  never,  never,  can !  Nor  does 
the  evil  die  with  its  author.  Centuries  hence, 
men  may  be  the  worse  for  that  which  I  have 
written;  the  sufferers  by  my  having  pre- 
ceded them  in  the  great  battle  of  human 
life.      The  Psalmist  wisely  prayed  that   a 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


143 


watch  might  be  set  before  his  mouth,  and  a 
guard  at  the  door  of  his  lips ;  how  fervently, 
then,  should  he  who  seeks  to  influence  pub- 
lic opinion  by  the  medium  of  the  thousand 
mouths  of  the  press,— how  earnestly  should 
he  pray,  that  his  words  may  be  the  words  of 
"  wisdom,"  and  his  lessons,  the  counsels  of 
"  understanding !" 


A  NOTICE 


OP  A  WORK  ENTITLED   "  CHARITY  AND  THE   CLERGY. 


» 


"  The  little  dogs  and  all, 
Tray,  Blanch,  and  Sweetheart,  see  they  bark  at  me." 

King  Lear. 

We  verily  thought  that  authorship  had 
done  sufficient  for  one  season,  in  the  way 
of  demoralizing  the  community,  in  the  issue 
of  the  second  edition  of  "  New  Themes,"  and 
the  "Hints  to  a  Layman;"  but  we  little 
knew  what  was  in  store  for  us  ! 

We  have  just  received,  from  the  pub- 
lishers, "  Charity  and  the  Clergy ;"  and  we 
must  admit  that  this  volume  "out  Herods 
Herod  !"  To  attempt  to  confront  with  argu- 
ment, the  imbecility  and  vulgarity  of  this 
precious  effusion,  would  be  about  as  wise,  as 
to  endeavor  to  civilize  an  Esquimaux,  or  to 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


145 


deliver  a  lecture  upon  logic  at  the  Insane 
Asylum ! 

The  accuracy,  or  truthfulness,  of  the  au- 
thor may  be  inferred  from  one  circumstance. 
The  reader  will  remember  the  great  blunder 
committed  by  the  author  of  "  New  Themes," 
in  his  "  Some  Notice "  of  our  "  Eeview,"  in 
blaming  us  for  remarks  upon  his  assertion 
relative  to  the  literature  of  "Christian 
Charity."  (See  our  "  Few  Remarks.")  We 
proved  that  we  had  not  even  referred  to  the 
subject,  for  our  (presumed)  comments  upon 
which,  we  were  so  berated.  Will  it  be  be- 
lieved, that,  the  author  of  "  Charity  and  the 
Clergy,"  actually  adopts  this  misstatement 
of  his  leader  ;  and  then  goes  on  with  a  jar- 
gon of  nonsense,  based  upon  this  untruth ! 
This  is  a  sad  beginning  for  a  critic,  indeed  ! 

As  "Charity"  is  the  first  word  we  meet 
with  in  his  book,  we  might  hope,  in  what- 
ever way  he  may  interpret  the  word,  that, 
at  least,  decency  would  be  preserved  in  his 
instructions.     Let  us  make  a  few  extracts, 

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146 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


to  illustrate  the  tone  and  temper  which 
prevail  throughout  this  extraordinary  pro- 
duction. 

"  And  the  vast  majority  of  those  who  at- 
tend the  Churches  are  not  influenced  by  a 
religious  motive.  *  *  A  large  class  go 
merely  to  be  fashionable ;  especially  those 
who  are  struggling  upwards  into  society, 
and  wishing  to  bring  themselves  into  notice. 
Men  of  business  and  of  the  learned  profes- 
sions, and  candidates  for  office,  often  fre- 
quent churches  on  the  same  principle  on 
which  they  put  their  cards  in  the  newspa- 
pers, and  in  order  to  estabhsh  confidence, 
and  appeal  to  congregational  esprit  du  corps. 
It  is  sickening  to  think  what  infernal 
[italics  are  our  own]  motives  bring  large 
numbers  of  people  to  our  churches."  (pp.  42, 
43.)  To  show  his  knowledge  of  English 
history,  we  refer  to  page  50,  &c.  Perhaps 
he  will  allow  us  to  recommend  to  his  peru- 
sal, a  very  valuable  digest  of  facts,  entitled, 
"  Wade's  British  History."    He  will  find  a 


NEW  THEMES   CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


147 


great  advantage  in  studying  it,  before  he 
again  appears  before  the  world,  as  an  author. 
Let  us  see  his  opinion  of  the  various  Chris- 
tian churches  :  "  The  first  evidence  of  this 
[that  the  ^'  gangrene  of  rottenness  is  creep- 
ing through  our  churches"]  which  we  men- 
tion is  a  general  indifference  among  the 
churches  to  the  real  solid  truth  of  God — 
even  to  that  portion  of  it,  which  is  an  ac- 
knowledged part  of  their  own  creed."  (p. 
76.)  As  illustrations  of  elegance  of  style, 
we  beg  to  quote  a  few  passages. 

"  Look  at  the  issues  of  our  cotemporaneous 
press,  and  what  are  they  in  the  main  but  a 
weak,  wishwashy,  everlasting  flood  of  pious 
trash ;  namby-pamby  novels,  stupid  tracts," 
&c.  *  *  "  0  shades  of  Butler,  Calvin,  Ed- 
wards, weep  over  your  degenerate  kind!  Be- 
hold your  giant  robes  covering  the  shoulders 
oireWgioM^  milksops r  (Italics  ours.)  (p.  77.) 
"And  then  the  preacher  is  warned  to  remem- 
ber that  *  *  a  certain  family  from  an- 
other denomination  is  negotiating  for  a  pew. 


148 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


149 


*  *  that  a  certain  lady's  aunt  sometimes 
attended  the  church;  all  these  being  of  a 
different  way  of  thinking  on  some  points,  it 
would  not  do  to  say  anything  that  might 
oflfend  them.  The  preacher  must  be  very 
careful  to  avoid  interdenominational  toj^ics, 
or  the  income  of  the  Church  might  suffer." 
(p.  80.)  Again,  "  The  sweet  Miss,  as  she 
presses  her  pearl  inlaid  Prayer-Book  to  her 
heart,  little  dreams  that  it  was  put  out  by 
the  same  house  that  drives  a  great  trade  in 
Paul  de  Kock's  novels."  (p.  84.)  Is  not  this 
in  exquisite  taste  ?  "  In  a  large  portion  of 
them  [religious  periodicals]  the  great  idea  is 
to  conduct  the  journal  so  that  it  loill  pay  ;  to 
have  a  villanous  squinting  towards  mammon 
while  professing  to  serve  God."  (p.  85.)  Be- 
stowing another  "compliment"  upon  a  "small 
class  of  periodicals,"  he  gives  us  this  choice 
specimen  of  "  English  undefiled  :"  "^  ^  their 
cathoUc  evangelism  means  keeping  the  bulk 
of  the  truth  of  God  out  of  sight,  and  courting 
the  greatest  numbers  of  Christians  who  can, 


by  an  occasional  pietistic  whine,  be  baited  into 
the  ranks  of  their  admiring  spoojieys"  &c. 
(Italics  ours.)    (p.  89.) 

Speaking  of  certain  critics,  he  thus  charac- 
terizes their  notices  of  new  publications :  "  *  * 
or  show  that  these  notices  are  like  the  wood- 
cut which  the  '  Western  Editor'  *  *  used  suc- 
cessively for  a  President,  an  English  Lord,  a 
murderer,  a  parson,  and  the  ^razor-strop 
man.' "  (p.  93.)  Referring  to  a  young  minis- 
ter s  difficulties,  he  represents  him  as  consi- 
dering "  Shall  he  advertise  himself  freely  in 
the  newspapers,  and  get  up  all  manner  of 
raree-shows  in  his  church  !  Shall  he  get  an 
organ  or  band  of  music  in  his  gallery,  and 
hire  stage-singers  to  do  up  his  God-praising, 
or  shall  the  Psalms  be  sung  as  through  comb- 
teeth.  -  *  *  Something  mw^i  be  done,  that's 
certain  !  But  whether  it  shall  be  demagogi- 
cal clap-trap,  or  esthetical  clap-trap  is  the 
question  !  If  he  determines  to  be  genteel, 
then  the  tailor,  the  toilet,  books  of  etiquette, 
an  occasional  slap  at  the  '  Liquor  Law,'  and 


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NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


151 


the  ^  Irish/  goes  a  great  way.  If  vulgar, 
then  a  dash  of  the  free  and  easy,  a  sneer  at 
^  up-town/  and  a  study  of  the  slang-wltangers 
vocabulary,  soon  get  him  in  the  way."  (Italics 
ours.)  (pp.  Ill,  112.) 

Can  this  be  an  autobiography,  that  this 
"  Protestant  clergyman"  is  giving  us  ?  Speak- 
ing of  English  bishops,  and  their  families,  he 
tells  us,  "  And  throughout  society,  they  are 
the  Tittlebat  Titmouses — the  ^upstart  aristo- 
cracy,' who  are  the  most  hyper-lordly  and 
contemptuous  towards  the  poor  of  all  others." 
(p.  125.) 

But  we  can  pardon  a  great  deal  to  a  clas- 
sical taste ;  and  are  rewarded  for  our  lenity 
by  the  following  poetical  image,  to  which  we 
remember  no  parallel  even  in  Shakspeare 
himself  He  tells  us  respecting  the  author 
of  "  New  Themes  :"  "  And  although  like  the 
hear  brushing  the  fly  from  the  nose  of  his  mis- 
tress, the  author  laid  his  hand  rather  heavy 
upon  the  clerical  countenance,"  &c.    (Italics 


' 


ours),  p.  127.  Is  not  this  a  most  touching 
comparison  ?  The  author  concludes  his  vo- 
lume with  a  self-sufficient,  insolent,  "  Address 
to  the  Protestant  Clergy  of  America."  He 
seems  very  anxious  that  the  clergy  should 
secure  the  $1000  prize  offered  for  a  work 
upon  "  Christian  Charity."  We  think  that 
the  money  could  not  be  better  devoted  than 
to  the  purchase  and  destruction  of  the  three 
productions  noticed  in  this  present  volume, 
viz.,  "  New  Themes,"  "  Hints  to  a  Layman," 
and  "  Charity  and  the  Clergy."  The  literary 
style  of  "  Charity  and  the  Clergy,"  defies  all 
criticism ;  its  tone  is  eminently  ill-bred ;  the 
tendency  of  it  will  be,  to  permanently  dis- 
grace its  author,  and  to  elicit  compassion  for 
the  author  of  "  New  Themes,"  who  has  laid 
himself  open  to  such  disreputable  champion- 

ship. 

We  have  said  that,  the  author  professes  to 
be  a  "Protestant  Clergyman."  This  we 
must  be  permitted  to  question.     Even  he 


152 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,   ETC. 


admits  of  the  character  of  a  clergyman,  that, 
"  Tie  ought  to  he  a  gentleman!'  But  we  ques- 
tion the  statement  that  this  author  is  a 
"  clergyman/'  on  the  same  ground  that  we 
should  demand  proof,  of  a  forger,  or  burglar, 
who  declared  himself  to  be  of  some  good 
family  of  our  acquaintance.  We  should  re- 
ply to  him  :  "  If  so,  you  have  disgraced  your 
family  by  your  crime ;  and  you  promulgate 
that  disgrace,  by  boasting  of  your  alliance. 
But  I  demand,  as  a  friend  of  your  avowed 
family,  that  you  shall  prove  your  relation- 
ship." For  one  thing,  we  beg  to  thank  the 
author  of  ^^  Charity  and  the  Clergy," — for 
his  abuse  of  ourselves.  We  are  forcibly  re- 
minded of  the  words  of  a  modern  writer : 
"We,  therefore,  like  his  invectives  against 
us,  much  better  than  anything  else  that  he 
has  written ;  and  dwell  on  them,  not  merely 
with  complacency,  but  with  a  feeling  akin  to 
gratitude."  Whatever  affliction  may  befall 
us,  by  our  own  misconduct,  or  by  the  ap- 


NEW  THEMES  CONDEMNED,  ETC. 


153 


pointment  of  a  wise  Providence,  we  hope  to 
bear  with  fortitude,  and  not  without  profit ; 
but  spare  us  from  the  encomiums  of  such 
Ishmaelites  as  the  author  of  "  Charity  and 
the  Clergy !" 


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BAGSTER'S  COMPREHENSIVE  BIBLE. 

In  order  to  develope  the  peculiar  nature  of  the  Comprehensive  Bible,  it  wiU  only  be  necessary 
to  embrace  its  more  prominent  features. 

ist  The  SACRED  TEXT  is  that  of  the  Authorized  Version,  and  is  pnnted  from  the  edition  cot- 
rected  and  improved  by  Dr.  Blaney,  which,  from  its  accuracy,  is  considered  the  standard  edition. 

2d.  The  VARIOUS  READINGS  are  faithfully  printed  from  the  edition  of  Dr.  Blaney,  mclusiT* 
of  the  translation  of  the  proper  names,  without  the  addition  or  diminution  of  one. 

3d.  In  the  CHRONOLOGY,  great  care  has  been  taken  to  fix  the  date  of  the  particular  transac 
tions  which  has  seldom  been  done  yrith  any  degree  of  exactness  in  any  former  ediUon  of  the  Bible. 

4th  The  NOTES  are  exclusively  philological  and  explanatory,  and  are  not  tinctured  with  senti- 
ments of  any  sect  or  party.    They  are  selected  from  the  moet  eminent  Biblical  cnUc.  and  com- 

mentators.  ,  ■d-v.i:^^ 

It  is  hoped  that  this  edition  of  the  Holy  Bible  will  be  found  to  contam  the  essence  of  Biblical 
research  and  criticism,  that  lies  dispersed  through  an  immense  number  of  volumes.  ' 

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ness,  and  correctness  of  the  typography,  that  it  cannot  fail  of  proving  acceptable  and  useful  to 
Christians  of  every  denomination.  ^  „      .  ♦». 

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student  has  all  the  marginal  readings,  together  with  a  hch  selection  of  Philological,  Crituuil,  Histo- 
ricaL  Geographical,  and  other  valuable  notes  and  remarks,  which  explain  and  iUustrate  the  sacred 
text  Besides  the  general  introduction,  containing  valuable  essays  on  the  genuineness,  authenticity, 
and  inspiration  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  other  topics  of  interest,  there  are  introductory  and  con- 
cluding remarks  to  each  book-a  table  of  the  contente  of  the  Bible,  by  which  the  different  porUons 
are  so  arranged  as  to  read  in  an  historical  order.  .  .-♦ 

Arranged  at  the  top  of  each  page  is  the  period  in  which  the  prominent  events  of  sacred  history 
took  place.  The  calculations  are  made  for  the  year  of  the  world  before  and  after  Christ.  Juliaa 
Period  the  year  of  the  Olympiad,  thi  year  of  the  building  of  Rome,  and  other  notations  of  tune. 
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meuts,  with  a  careful  analysis  and  arrangement  of  texts  under  their  appropnate  subjects. 

Mr  Greenfield,  the  editor  of  this  work,  and  for  some  time  previous  to  his  death  the  supeirntend- 
ent  of  the  editorial  department  of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  was  a  ^^'f'^^^°^ 
man.  In  editing  the  Comprehensive  Bible,  his  varied  and  extensive  learning  vr^  ca  led  mto  <rao. 
cessful  exercise,  and  appears  in  happy  combination  with  sincere  piety  and  a  '^"^^/"'^^f  ^, 
Editor  of  the  Christian  Observer,  alluding  to  this  work,  in  an  obituary  noUce  of  lU  author,  speaks 
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ta/e  ,n  a  female  in  this  country  to  be  without  -^-P^^^^;^;^^^^^^^  no  syUable 

an  honour  to  her  sex  and  to  humanity,  and  whose  P'-^^^^^^'^^^^  rmoreover.  in  Mrs.  Hemans's 

^iculated  to  call  a  blush  to  the  cheek  of  modesty  -^l^^^nl^ln^  ^s^al  banner,  to  the  dii. 

poetry,  a  moral  punty  and  a  ^f^^^^^^tn^^tfi^  0--^^^  ^-P^^  -^"^^'- 
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with  regard  to  the  free  perusaTof  every  production  ^'^^"'^'''^  '"^^.^^.^^  Uiought  or  dicUon; 
;:;^:athes'throughout  the  whole  a  ^^^ ZT:l^ZTZ^^ i^^^rZ^  IriouTcompositions. 

risrriXrhiTen^s^^^ 

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,.. dMin^i-bed  Prore^or  ^f^Z^^X'S:^^:^^"^'^^''^'^- 
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to  well  kDown,  that  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  add  a  word  in  its  favour.  It  is  only  necessary  to  say, 
that  the  publishers  have  now  issued  an  illustrated  edition,  which  greatly  enhances  its  former  value. 
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which  it  is  aflRmled  to  purchasers,  the  best  edition  of  the  modem  British  Poets  that  has  ever  been 
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Aogers,  Campbell,  Lamb,  Hemans,  Heber,  liirke  White,  Crabbe,  the  Miscellaneous  Works  of  Gold- 
mith,  and  other  masters  of  the  lyre.  The  publishers  are  doing  a  great  service  by  their  publication, 
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littionori]  of  ^oftirnl  (tuiotatinna: 

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Of  Nature  and  of  Beauty. 

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THE  POETICAL  WORKS  OF  THOMAS  MOORE, 

COLLECTED  BY  HIMSELF. 

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AUNT  PHIILIS'S  CABIN; 


OR, 


SOUTHERN  LIFE  AS  IT  IS. 


LIPPmCOTT,  GRAMBO  &  CO.,  Philadelphia, 

HAYS  JUST  PUBLISHED 

AUNT  PHILLIS'S  CABIN;  or,  Southern  Life  as  It  Is. 

BY  MRS.  MARY  H.  EASTMAN. 

This  volume  presents  a  picture  of  Southern  life  taken  at  dif- 
ferent points  of  view  from  the  one  occupied  by  the  author  of 
«  Uncle  Tom^s  Cabin." 

The  writer,  being  a  native  of  the  South,  is  familiar  with  the 
many  varied  aspects  assumed  by  domestic  servitude  in  that  sunny 
region,  and  therefore  feels  competent  to  give  pictures  of  "  Southern 
Life  as  it  is."  Pledged  to  no  clique  or  party,  and  free  from  the 
pressure  of  any  and  all  extraneous  influences,  she  has  written  her 
book  with  a  view  to  its  truthfulness;  and  the  public  at  the  North, 
as  well  as  at  the  South,  will  find  in  Aunt  Phillis's  Cabin,  not  the 
distorted  picture  of  an  interested  painter,  but  the  faithful  tran- 
script of  a  Daguerreotypist.  It  is  the  truth  that  all  profess  to 
seek,  and  in  a  matter  of  such  vital  interest  to  the  whole  nation  as 
Domestic  Slavery,  Truth — not  highly-wrought  imaginary  repre- 
sentations— is  above  all  things  demanded.  Such  truth,  in  the  en- 
ticing garb  of  a  skilful  fiction,  will  Aunt  Phillis's  Cabin  present. 

The  author  does  not  come  before  the  public  as  the  apologist  of 
Slavery,  but  with  the  earnest  desire  to  represent  it  as  it  is ;  and 
in  doing  so,  she  will  show  its  ameliorating  features  in  strong  con- 
trast with  the  painful  scenes  so  elaborately  set  forth  in  "  Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin." 


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